Well I don’t have one of those anymore either. I have a pickup truck and little trailer though, so I can still get them to the local tracks.
Pay is finally coming around to what it was in the 70's (inflation adjusted). The pilot shortage is pretty real and the airlines are all raking it in. JetBlue and Delta just got new contracts, I believe they are out for a vote now. 12 year Narrowbody Captain (717/737/A320) $330 per hour. Figure average of 80 hours per month working 12-14 days. FO pay around $200. So it's damn good money. I don't know what the Widebody international guys will be getting, but 777 FO is probably still a smidge less than narrow body Captain. Just depends what kind of lifestyle you want to live. Widebody FO maybe 4 landings per month, flying all night across the pond.
they dont work 1 week a month. You have to add in managing the rental properties, burying all their gold and guns and doing "research" on the net on far right/left conspiracy theories. All these things take a lot of time.
Bitching is also a full time job We have guys that are complaining about NOT having airport reserve anymore
True! At the time, I think AA was training pilots to use the rudder to recover from Dutch Roll. My dutch roll recovery training was different, it was aileron recovery. Nowadays they don't want you putting any rudder pressure in at all during stall recoveries, but if you start to roll it's a handful. Swept wing stalls from the tips inward, rendering the ailerons ineffective pretty early in the stall. Thanks to Air France and Colgan Air, we now have "Extended Envelope Training" where we fly the simulator deep into the stall to see what it feels like and how different the recovery is. On my last session, during the debrief, the instructor said "you had 20 lb force on the left rudder" I said no, I had 500 pounds force on the right rudder and 480 on the left! HAHA!
Not quite. They just put a spot on the frame to mount it. I had both. Lost my 96 to a tank slapper. Needless to say I put a steering damper on the 97.
It was definitely an improvement over the SRAD in many ways. Never had a head shake on that bike. In stock trim I was able to put down a 1:54 at TWS. I thought it was pretty respectable.
I went through that training because AA was extremely proud of it post TWA purchase. The instructor was an ex F-teener that started discussing corner speed. How many transport category jets have a corner speed carrot?? Zero… My understanding is that both Boeing and Airbus told AA they were going to over stress the airframe with the procedures they were teaching prior to 587. Currently working in Safety, I can say no more.
Speaking of safety, is this morning’s nationwide DNF being marked as a big TFR? Or, does FAA have a different term for that?
I think it’s more of a DNS. Currently stuck in RSW waiting for it to start up again. I guess the NOTAM system went down. Surprisingly, the system is completely shite on its best day.