"You might be a Regional pilot if..."

[Saabslime]

If you have to repeatedly ask the flight attendant to move all the passengers forward to get the plane into CG.......

 

[surplus1]

If you've ever heard the comment from a lil ole lady... "you mean they let them fly?" (referring to the FO)

Are you sure you didn't mean "referring to the CA"?

If they won't let you into public places ..... unless they also sell food.

 

[WileE]

If you think an autopilot is the guy who drives the taxi from the hotel...

If your idea of air conditioning is getting above ten thousand feet...

If your passengers have to go through security AFTER they get off your plane...

If the government pays you to fly to east nowhere TX regardless that you never have more than one passenger who wants to go there...

If you ever have been assigned 5000 as a final altitude...

If you've ever cancelled a flight because you can't get the airplane shovelled out of the snow...

If you have the maid do the room so you can get more free coffee...

If you search the back of the seats every flight on the chance you might assemble a full USA Today and save 50 cents...

You might be a Regional Pilot.

 

[EagleRJ]

If you bought your kit bag at Office Depot, you might be a regional pilot.

If Tower regularly tells you, "Traffic two mile final- no delay- cleared for takeoff!", you might be a regional pilot.

If passengers walk up the stairs to your plane holding their ears because of the shrieking A/C packs, you might be a regional pilot.

If approach control tells you, "reduce to final approach speed, you're five-zero knots faster than traffic four miles ahead", and you still make the landing, you might be a regional pilot.

If a regular summertime perk for your passengers is a napkin soaked in ice water, you might be a regional pilot.

If you wear black tennis shoes with your uniform, and the stripes on your jacket sleeves are so worn and fuzzy, they look like strips of Velcro, you might be a regional pilot.

If your passenger's journey with you begins or ends on a bus, you might be a regional pilot.

If one of your passengers walked out of the terminal and mistakenly got on another airline's aircraft, you might be a regional pilot.

If center tells you to expidite your climb, so you increase to 800 feet per minute, you might be a regional pilot.

If the flight attendant says "Thanks, watch your head. Thanks, watch your head" as the passengers get off, you might be a regional pilot.

 

[Russ]

If you still have an 8 track in your car....
If you bum money from the rampers for lunch to tide you over till a happy meal at dinner....

 

[eriknorth]

If you keep bumping your head every time you enter or exit the cockpit...

What if you are 6'5"? Does that mean I am automatically a regional pilot?



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"you mean I'm gonna stay this color?"
-The Jerk

 

[Prop Trash]

Yeah, these are all funny and everything, but there's another breed of airlines out there that some believe fit into the "regional" category. You may work for one of these airlines if:

• you wake up in Mexico and go to sleep in Canada
• at a major airport you are surrounded by 737s, MD-80's, DC-9s, ect., but your destination is farther than everyone elses
• the "short hops" are those blocked at two hours or less
• your airline's airplanes have taken over an entire concourse that was once occupied by the "mainline"
• you don't bid lines with 32 hour overnights because you don't enjoy the local cuisine
• mainline markets your routes as if they were their own
• you fly through three mainline hubs in one day
• your FO came from the mainline's 737 or MD-80, and this is his first time to be a "regional pilot."

 

[~~~^~~~]

You might be a Regional Pilot, if you help support the RJDC.

Then again, you might be a Regional Pilot if you have had two American pilots, one US Air pilot and one Delta pilot ask you for a letter of recommendation - in the last 48 hours!

Isn't ALPA's discriminatory policies working wonderfully at protecting mainline jobs and limiting the transfer of flying to alter ego airlines, owned by the same companies, flying the same passengers, on the same routes?

That is the reason for the merger and fragmentation policy and why it must be used - to hold the company into flying their pilots and not subcontracting work.

All Delta flying performed by Delta pilots on one list is effective. Instead we have numerous pages of all Delta flying will be performed by Delta pilots except 50 and 70 seat jets, and only if the Company keeps making money and if, and if, and so on....

Why don't you major guys hold the union, that you pay and that sold you "effective scope" responsible and force a change?

 

[Mitsipilot]

Proptrash

Hey Proptrash,

You must work for COEX or ExpressJet?

 

[MetroSheriff]

You might be a Regional Pilot, if you help support the RJDC.

Then again, you might be a Regional Pilot if you have had two American pilots, one US Air pilot and one Delta pilot ask you for a letter of recommendation - in the last 48 hours!

Isn't ALPA's discriminatory policies working wonderfully at protecting mainline jobs and limiting the transfer of flying to alter ego airlines, owned by the same companies, flying the same passengers, on the same routes?

That is the reason for the merger and fragmentation policy and why it must be used - to hold the company into flying their pilots and not subcontracting work.

All Delta flying performed by Delta pilots on one list is effective. Instead we have numerous pages of all Delta flying will be performed by Delta pilots except 50 and 70 seat jets, and only if the Company keeps making money and if, and if, and so on....

Why don't you major guys hold the union, that you pay and that sold you "effective scope" responsible and force a change?

I created this to be a lighthearted poke at the regional lifestyle, not another RJDC rant. It's a free country, so go ahead and ruin this one, too.

Can't you ever relax and have a little fun???

To borrow a line from FL000:

"SQUAWK 7500, ANOTHER THREAD HAS BEEN HIJACKED!!!"