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Youngest pilot at SWA?

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A Guy, I know has been here 4 years already and just turned 28.
 
Does the youngest still carry the passifier while the oldest carry a cane while in class? They did when I interned.

Cheers
 
canyonblue737 said:
in terms of being hired? well they are hiring guys in their early 50's right now.

my class went from 28-51 with the median around 37.

My class at Delta in 99 was the similar: 27 to 51 with the median at 37.
 
Yep...... and if you get caught without the binkie or the cane you have to buy a round for the entire class. This, BTW, includes specail trips to the mall or out to dinner in the evenings:)

Gup
 
canyonblue737 said:
yep. :laugh:

Yes, however, one class over the summer had it taken away by one of the head instructors. The instructors decided you shouldn't have to carry it around longer than a week or so. Totally lame.
 
don't understand the point of this thread

the air force puts 25-year old kids in bombers with nuclear capability and issues them a gov contract fuel card and some Form 15's and sends them across the globe

I think the same age group can manage 737s from LBB to DAL...
 
DH2WN said:
Yes, however, one class over the summer had it taken away by one of the head instructors. The instructors decided you shouldn't have to carry it around longer than a week or so. Totally lame.

week after mine they took off 10 lbs of accesories and stripped both back to the core cane and pacifer... also lame. :laugh: still a cool tradition that is going on.
 
so THATS why that "one guy" in the cafeteria wears that big ole sucker around his neck. I thought he pissed off the intructor or something.
 
The tradition of the cane and binkie was instituted by line pilots and checkpilots. I think we ought to tell the ground/sim instructors to stay outta our traditions!

In fact I'll do just that as soon as my PC is over.
 
Then, how old's the oldest?

He-he, good point.

On this side of the big 60 wall for sure.

I was the second oldest guy in my AA class at 43..Pre 9-11, Pre TWA, Pre everything.

Good luck to the young dudes that waltz in there in their mid-20a..Good job, good money, good seniority.
(But a voice in yer head is always going to ask about flying long-hauls across the oceans in big planes with sweet F/As looking for a good time on that long layover...) :D
 
Huggyu2 said:
Mav1,
Change your avatar! Everyone will think you're "psysicx"!

And with your join date and VERY few posts you'd better change that thing before we all figure out that you're a SOCK for him!
 
CSY Mon said:
(But a voice in yer head is always going to ask about flying long-hauls across the oceans in big planes with sweet F/As looking for a good time on that long layover...) :D

Last I heard the SWA guys weren't having any kind of trouble finding a "good time" on their layovers...
 
CSY Mon said:
(But a voice in yer head is always going to ask about flying long-hauls across the oceans in big planes with sweet F/As looking for a good time on that long layover...) :D

Don't even have to cross an ocean for that here. Some of those Florida layovers look like a screening of Caligula. Be careful guy's, first comes love (sort of) then comes marriage (sort of) then comes F/O with a baby carriage. (absotutly!):smash:
 
CSY Mon said:
(But a voice in yer head is always going to ask about flying long-hauls across the oceans in big planes with sweet F/As looking for a good time on that long layover...) :D

That voice went silent when I flew across the ocean on a vacation to Europe years ago. But thank God somebody likes to do it. A 3 hr leg is about as much as my ....mmmm....errrrr....backside can take. But to each his own....its not like I didn't know what the flying was like when I came here.

In talking to my friends who do fly the "long hauls across oceans in big planes", they've told me that most of the F/A's who fly those are the most senior....i.e. old F/A's who are now grandmas and grandpas...unless it's different at "your house."

Tejas
 

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