"The Academy"

[Cpt Oveur]

how long were you on the ATR?

 

[Sonny Crockett]

Sorting FACT from Fiction I am here to tell ya.....


Waayyyyy back in 1993 at ACA I was listening to a couple of F/O's talk when one of them said......

"Back at the Academy we were like brothers"

I asked the guy if he was an ex-USAFA grad? "NO" he replied! "I went to the THE Comair Aviation Academy" as if I should be impressed? What a tool.

That tool is now at Southwest, and the rest of the "Academy boys" are at UAL,NWA,DAL and CAL.

Nothing new here, someday they will grow up and grow out of the "Academy thing"

 

[Chuck Steak]

It must have hard to get accepted into such a prestigious program!

 

[say again]

It must have hard to get accepted into such a prestigious program!

Tell me about it. Getting that rejection letter was the saddest day of my life. If only I had a few more 10's of thousands of dollars......

 

[johnpeace]

It must be epiedemic.

The 2 biggest tools to work at the flight school with us were from 'the academy'.

DCA.

I thought it was a joke at first.

 

[mcjohn]

Tools maybe.. idiots definitely. About the cheapest you can get all the ratings minus ATP at those places is 60+ grand. Most come out closer to 100 grand though in high interest debt. Then they get to instruct for $10 an hour. Delta Connection Academy is a joke. It is nothing more than rating mill.

Folks, if you want to go get all your ratings at a rating mill... at the most do it at ATP and at the least do it at Sheble's. Going to DCA, Flight Safety, or Pan Am ab-initio is financial suicide.

[SIZE=-1]www.shebleaviation.com

Why that didn't turn into a clickable link.. I dunno.

Johnpeace, a large proportion of folks from those places tend to be financially complacent trust fund kids sent there to please their parents. Not all. But many. Might explain the 2 tools.
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[Amish RakeFight]

[SIZE=-1]Johnpeace, a large proportion of folks from those places tend to be financially complacent trust fund kids sent there to please their parents. Not all. But many. Might explain the 2 tools.[/SIZE]

I tend to dislike trust funders and their privileged/entitled attitudes. Not all, but most.

 

[Princedietrich]

I used to work for a guy at LUK who refered to his flight school as "the Academy." First time I heard him give that spiel to a potential mark... I mean customer (and he did it with a straight face), I had to leave the building in order to unleash the hilarious laughter that was about to escape.

In related news, I hear that the same guy is now in jail for fraud. Apparently he was stealing from the school and the customers in order to "finance the lifestyle enhancements of an exotic dancer."

If ya want to see something truly comedic, take one of those Embry-Ridiculous wunderkinds and put them in a freight dawg training program. Give them the profiles and procedures book, tell them that's the way to fly the plane to get the job done, and watch the hilarity ensue.

 

[RP170]

If ya want to see something truly comedic, take one of those Embry-Ridiculous wunderkinds and put them in a freight dawg training program. Give them the profiles and procedures book, tell them that's the way to fly the plane to get the job done, and watch the hilarity ensue.

Or take an old "freight dog" to an interview with a respectible company and watch him get laughed out of the building.

 

[joe_pilot]

Or take an old "freight dog" to an interview with a respectible company and watch him get laughed out of the building.

Not really

 

[jke406]

I bet they fly with thier knee boards too.

Hell, I bet they drive with their kneeboards!!

 

[EMB170Pilot]

Tell me about it. Getting that rejection letter was the saddest day of my life. If only I had a few more 10's of thousands of dollars......

Dude! Everyone knows you send your resume with gold lettering on them to these prestigious universities.

 

[Redan]

Or take an old "freight dog" to an interview with a respectible company and watch him get laughed out of the building.

Sorry to report to you sir, that this is a long long way from the truth.

 

[Thug Life]

Hell, I bet they drive with their kneeboards!!

And they use a checklist when they turn off their car.

 

[WabiSabi]

Check out DCA's website. The intro music sounds pretty lame for a flight school's website. It sounds like it is geared toward that very cocky, spiky haired, "I went to the Academy", "dude".

 

[V-1]

They forgot to mention on the website your new "highly skilled flight instructor" just graduated the program herself last week.

Her instructor also only had three hundred hours of flight experience to impart upon her.

She'll be moving on to a regional airline before you finish your private license. She can't fly a visual approach, but who cares? She will soon be SIC of a 50-passenger regional jet!

 

[genus]

...ya know, come to think of it. I flew with an FO a loooong time ago in the mighty ATRah...and he used a knee board. I was briefed by him that he was going to use it....damn, what was his name.

I flew with a senior 700 captain only a couple of months ago who used a knee board. Never wrote a damn thing on it but he strapped it on before every flight. Talk about a real tool! :cartman:

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Or take an old "freight dog" to an interview with a respectible company and watch him get laughed out of the building.

Hmm, I wonder if you transitioned straight from the right seat of a Seminole to that J-41?

Did you fly it for that "respectable" company TSA?

 

[TWA]

I flew with a senior 700 captain only a couple of months ago who used a knee board. Never wrote a damn thing on it but he strapped it on before every flight. Talk about a real tool! :cartman:

And you're a tool for using a knee board because...?

 

[RP170]

Hmm, I wonder if you transitioned straight from the right seat of a Seminole to that J-41?

Did you fly it for that "respectable" company TSA?

Kind of to the first question. Was actually instructing in Mooney's and 172's. No to the second. Worked at ACA/Independence.

Not on here to brag. Just evening up the score on someone who makes a rash generalization about a particular type of person. A Riddle student in this scenario.

I'm sure there are as many clueless guys who come out of Riddle to fly freight as there are freight dogs who transition to aircraft with automation (autopilot, FMS, etc).

 

[Longhorn]

And you're a tool for using a knee board because...?

Maybe in General Aviation where the cockpit is so small is that ok, but in an airline environment, you look like a tool for having a knee board strapped to you. In the last 10 years, I have only flown with one guy who wore a knee board.....Its the equivalent of another pilot putting on a pair of foggles so he can log instrument time.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I was thinking more like walking out of the restroom with toilet paper stuck to your shoe.

 

[say again]

Its the equivalent of another pilot putting on a pair of foggles so he can log instrument time.

And whats wrong with that?? hahaha. Gotta keep proficient somehow. :beer::laugh:

 

[TWA]

I can see marking the guy as a tool if he tells everyone they're unsafe for not using one or some BS like that, but if it works for him and he keeps to himself, who cares?

 

[Dirty Sanchez]

I believe statistically speaking your chances of being raped are significantly lower at the Delta Academy.

You can get raped for $100K for your ratings there.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

I can top that. I was in recurrent last week at Flight Safety, and saw a Prius with a Florida Embry-Riddle top gun plate, Riddle stickers all over it, and hay in the back. I'm afraid to wonder what the hay was for.

His sheep-friend, brokeback style!
PBR

 

[PBRstreetgang]

You can get raped for $100K for your ratings there.

Senor Sanchez,
If you bend over and spread your cheeks of ones own free will, is that not consensual?
The 'ole $100K cornhole, priceless!
PBR

 

[JettBoii]

We had a new hire ER f/o (sometime last week) who when tower cleared them to position and hold in CVG he keyed up and said "we cant go..we need to deice". I think he was sent to BD's office for a good raking.

 

[Truckdriver]

We had a new hire ER f/o (sometime last week) who when tower cleared them to position and hold in CVG he keyed up and said "we cant go..we need to deice". I think he was sent to BD's office for a good raking.

?????????????

Why would you get a good raking for making sure the aircraft was safe to fly? Did the holdover time expire? Did they not de-ice then it started to snow? I'm sure the Captain agreed with him so did the Captain get a raking for de-icing the aircraft? I'm sure there is a reason that they needed to de-ice and if it would have been one of those "seasoned" FO's the same thing would have happned. And more than likely the Captain was the one telling the FO what to tell tower so I'm not sure what a newhire has to do with the deal here. I've had holdover times expire just prior to getting to the runway and had to do the same thing, so I don't realize why you would get a good raking for doing something like that.

 

[zasca]

I assume the story goes, the FO never asked the captain about it and took the "initiative", thus screwing them if they really didn't need to de-ice...