Ugh boss got busy and wants to talk tomorrow morning but I’ve got the flying flexibility surrounded so I think I should be good to go. I bet that yak was fun. On a completely different note ,I’m dying to get into an aviat husky someday
My experience is a little different, there are lots of good career type Air Force pilots. There are also lots of part time guys that come around a whole lot more when the economy sucks. Todd Green. I even happened to take a photo of his fall from about a quarter mile away.
It was good, I've had a couple informal lessons before this, I was able to take off, do steep turns, slow flight, a couple stalls, and land it. Piper Cherokee today, they're really docile, Cessna's before this and they certainly feel different.
Travis, the best advice I can give you is to not waste any time at all. Don't screw around trying to build hours, bike the bullet and get your CFI, get hired at a big school like S3 in Sanford or similar, where the instructors are flying their brains out. Get your 1500 in 8-10 months and skip the regionals, go straight to Allegiant, Frontier, Spirit, etc. As others have said, the idea is to get on the seniority list as soon as possible, you can still be on the front side of the latest hiring wave. As for some of the comments about the career, there are so many different options, you can find something you like. I never thought I'd be flying the 737 3 legs a day for the rest of my career, but I have found that I like it. Once a week or so I do a transcon, so I get my 5 hour leg in. Plus I still get to do all the takeoffs and landings I want and I don't have to fly backside of the clock much. As I've gotten older, I'm glad I don't have to cross more than 4 time zones, the layovers sound fun, but that shit wears me out. The key is to get some experience, and with the coming growth in aviation, you will be able to write your own ticket. I truly believe that. Some of the options are not for the faint of heart, though (flying in Africa, etc.) The impact on family life has a lot more to do with what job you have and who you are married to than "the industry." I'm gone 3 days a week. Not for everyone but it works well for my wife and I. You can stop worrying about single pilot airliners and pilotless airplanes. The FAA and the maufacturers are just not ready for that. One look at the MAX debacle should tell you that. I'm sure it will happen someday, but not going to affect our careers.
A little off topic: For you pilots that have been exposed to the Runway Status Lights system what do you think of it? That program kept alot of us busy for 10 years but ended early 2018 once all the sites were deployed
I like it a lot, definitely a great tool to close some of the holes in the Swiss cheese. It sure gets your attention when they light up....
Thanks for the info We worked with the Rockwell TCAS for cockpit alerting using the ASDE-X system but it didn't get enough traction to turn into a program. RWSL was our only project that the pilots had first hand exposure to. ASDE-X and ASSC are installed for controller situational awareness. We're now working on a prototype for signage alerts at critical intersections.
Got a pay raise, company car and the boss said I want you to get your commercial license. Maybe i should be in sales Pretty Good Friday
Outside sales in the steel industry. If anyone needs some welded wire mesh let me know. Prices are in the gutter
Fuck the system! Go fly jets. I’m sure there’s an opening at Atlas (gub’ment contractor/charter airline). I know this because someone I know was coming back from Afghanistan earlier this week. He was scheduled to arrived Tuesday night, but the FO for the Germany to USA leg said “FUCK THIS SHIT” and walked out of the jet while everyone was boarding. So yeah, drive your company car to flight school with that extra pay.
The author of this NY Times article was on CNBC yesterday and he placed the blame for the 737MAX crashes squarely on the pilots and their lack of quality training/experience. I think it's a pretty good article. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-crashes.html
Probably took me an hour to get through it but it was interesting. I watch all kinds of videos and shows about crashes and it’s always amazing how a pilot can miss such a simple thing. In the second crash all they had to do was pull back on the throttle and they would have been fine, how do your eyes miss information as important as your airspeed in that situation? Even when they hit the ground at 600 mph they never lifted, crazy.
Well, Well, Well. What do you know? Now that a more complete picture is coming out, it turns out that there's more to the story. https://www.apnews.com/26193e086499406da6ee94176ef5e0b2 Gotta love the irony of the NY Times- they played a huge role in jumping to conclusions that the MAX was unsafe, and now their own article refutes it. So they still get to claim to be bringing truth to the world, whatever that means. Meanwhile Boeing and the airlines have lost billions.
What does that prove as far as the design of the aircraft is concerned? New York Times didn't ground it.