New TA rumor
06-18-2016, 12:14 PM
#41
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2015
Position: WB/A
Posts: 900
Only one probationary F/O I'm aware of. No worries there. My seat-o-pants survey suggests that the majority of 50/50 Orange cockpits are established by non-participating captains. Not sure why, since left seaters are supposed to lead by example.
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06-18-2016, 01:23 PM
#42
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2011
Posts: 4,535
almost every captain i've flown with has been wearing orange....but i'm on a narrow body.
06-18-2016, 02:16 PM
#44
The Brown Dot +1
Joined APC: Jun 2009
Position: 777B
Posts: 7,775
Other FO basically hated all things ALPA. To which, I retorted, every pilot in this cockpit hates ALPA...followed by a long laundry list of whys.
Believe it or not, that was a revelation. Orange lanyard offered with a cool little orange angry birds watch and accepted. Everything was right with the world.
06-18-2016, 02:56 PM
#46
Runs with scissors
Joined APC: Dec 2009
Position: Going to hell in a bucket, but enjoying the ride .
Posts: 7,737
Im on a wide body. Last trip, 2 orange capts 1 orange fo (me) and one non-orange fo. So, my little factfinding mission was to find out why...
Other FO basically hated all things ALPA. To which, I retorted, every pilot in this cockpit hates ALPA...followed by a long laundry list of whys.
Believe it or not, that was a revelation. Orange lanyard offered with a cool little orange angry birds watch and accepted. Everything was right with the world.
Other FO basically hated all things ALPA. To which, I retorted, every pilot in this cockpit hates ALPA...followed by a long laundry list of whys.
Believe it or not, that was a revelation. Orange lanyard offered with a cool little orange angry birds watch and accepted. Everything was right with the world.
Back in March I was flying to SYD with very senior captain (sn<50) who is now retired. Even though he knew he would not be here to reap the rewards and he actually lost money, he voted no last July due to the companies over reaching in the concessions.
The one that really Po'd him the most was them wanting to take their bonus money out of our PS pool first! He didn't have a lanyard at the time, but I had an extra and he was happy to wear it. I'll bet he wore it on his retirement flight a couple weeks ago.
06-18-2016, 02:56 PM
#47
Otto
Joined APC: Jul 2013
Position: Turkish Pile Driver
Posts: 1,806
Again very unscientific, my seat of the pants feel is maybe 1 in 3 Atl 717 captains wears orange. Even worse, most of the guys I know do not plan to picket on Friday. Hope I am way off due to small sample size. Most of the guys I know are junior and are stuck flying Friday into the weekend, which is a possible reason...
06-19-2016, 07:01 AM
#49
:-)
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Posts: 7,339
Start filling out all forms, and the logbooks in orange ink.
https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Retrac...orange+ink+pen
https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Retrac...orange+ink+pen
06-19-2016, 07:20 AM
#50
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2014
Posts: 342
Again very unscientific, my seat of the pants feel is maybe 1 in 3 Atl 717 captains wears orange. Even worse, most of the guys I know do not plan to picket on Friday. Hope I am way off due to small sample size. Most of the guys I know are junior and are stuck flying Friday into the weekend, which is a possible reason...
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