"The Academy"

[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...