What affected your net career income most?
06-04-2020, 05:26 AM
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All of the above. Furloughed for 4 1/2 years after 9-11. Came back to bankruptcy contract. Right after that changed retirement age to 65 so stagnation set in and got stuck in right seat of mad dog for 7 years at terrible pay rates. 07-08 financial crisis contributed to the stagnation. After 15 years took upgrade at the first opportunity I could. Left seat mad dog. Now after almost 20 years I’m getting kicked off 717 back to right seat due to Covid. What a career.
06-04-2020, 05:36 AM
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All of the above. Furloughed for 4 1/2 years after 9-11. Came back to bankruptcy contract. Right after that changed retirement age to 65 so stagnation set in and got stuck in right seat of mad dog for 7 years at terrible pay rates. 07-08 financial crisis contributed to the stagnation. After 15 years took upgrade at the first opportunity I could. Left seat mad dog. Now after almost 20 years I’m getting kicked off 717 back to right seat due to Covid. What a career.
Wish all of us the best. I'm starting to look into truck driving....seems to be more stable than this gig!
06-04-2020, 06:04 AM
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06-04-2020, 06:43 AM
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06-04-2020, 07:12 AM
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06-04-2020, 07:21 AM
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https://www.republicworld.com/entert...autopilot.html
Otherwise I like where you're going with it..
06-04-2020, 07:28 AM
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I dunno about the Tesla.....see below as the Tesla crashes into the truck flipped on the highway while on autopilot.
https://www.republicworld.com/entert...autopilot.html
Otherwise I like where you're going with it..
https://www.republicworld.com/entert...autopilot.html
Otherwise I like where you're going with it..
06-04-2020, 07:05 PM
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06-05-2020, 07:26 AM
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Doubt it. I could see 4 pilots ops going to 3 and 3 going to 2. But going to 1 would require a comprehensive systems overhaul with massive redundancy that would exceed the costs of another pilot by a wide margin. Every single switch, lever, control, breaker, handle etc would have to have multipile redundant and independant ways to actuate, regardless of it being an onboard source or ground based doing it. That adds so much weight and cost and MX there's no way one pilot is more expensive than that. No way they put airliners in the sky "one heartbeat away" from an unthinkable and highly preventable disaster to save the costs of one pilot, especially when in doing so it would cost more than that extra pilot to begin with.
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