Jumbo Pilot

1. How old were you? 33; My Birthday Actually

2. What was your total time? 5000

3. How much turbine PIC did you have? 2100

4. What was your turbine PIC in? C-5 and Lear 35

5. How many internal recs did you have? 5

6. Were you 135 and/or 121? Mostly Military and Some 121 (737 @ Legacy Carrier)

packageflyer

1- 42
2- 16,600
3- 13,000
4- Jetstream 3100/3200, King Air,BE-58
5- 1
6- both

MD11Pilot

1. 37
2. 6500
3. 2000
4. Jetstream 41 & CRJ200
5. 1
6. 121

pilotgolfer

You forget you are dealing with pilots...you should ask, "do you remember what your wife was wearing at your first divorce?"

FlytoSki

27
3400
1200
Mu30/be40 Hs125
1
91/135

md11phlyer

Yo narcissists, I think he has enough data points. The **** measuring contest is down the hall.

MD11Fr8Dog

It's okay, I can reach the contest down the hall from here!

viktorbravo

yeah, the 135 gigs had me flying 1200 hrs per year without exception. Most of the time I was timed out by early December.

As Chevy Chase would say, "Thats nothin to be proud of Rusty."

Chrisw

This is very reasuring information. I am a very recently certificated commercial pilot working as an instructor to build time, but im 27 years old. I always thought that I was so far behind everyone when i finally get the opportunity to meet the UPS/FEDEX minimums and they are hiring, I would never see the left seat or any good lines because of my age when hired. It seems that everyone isn't in their late 20's early 30's when hired after all. It seems to me that the FEDEX UPS guys are the only ones that don't complain about their jobs all the time.

viktorbravo

Well, thats not really true but we have a lot less to complain about than most of our brothers and sisters at other carriers who are going through some really horrendous stuff on the front lines of a wholesale rape of our profession.

There's still plenty of complaining going on, thats just the way it is. I think I have a great job and I am very thankful for it. I still do my share of complaining though, especially when I'm hanging from the shoulder straps at 4 am, bleeding out of my eyeballs on the 4th leg of a very long night of flying. but its generally limited to something like, "Man, this really sucks."

Night work has a tendency to bring out the worst in people, but overall I think that most of us realize that its part of the gig and accept it.

FWIW, I really dont have one thing that's worth the effort of complaining about. Complaining accomplishes nothing and only serves to ruin your attitude and the attitude of others. If I find myself going down that path I have to stop and take a deep breath then just shut my mouth and wait until I can actually do something about it. :-) Life is better that way.

A few years back I was deadheading on a aircraft where there was a very heated contract debate going on among the jumpseaters. the captain finally had enough of it, turned around and said, "I have a new rule boys. On this airplane you are only allowed to talk about two things: chicks, and beer. Period."