Uhm...Pretty sure you got that backwards.

Sorry but professional pride regarding one's appearance in this profession shouldn't be dependent upon the company you work for. It's not backwards at all.

Your appearance is a reflection of yourself including your personal and professional upbringing, not your happiness with your boss. Once a dirtbag always a dirtbag.

You're right. At one point this profession attracted people with good personal and professional upbringing. Now due to the continued degradation of the career field it is attracting more people that don't have those qualities. Also the companies used to enforce professional behavior. At one time it was possible to be fired or at least reprimanded for not wearing ones hat. Now a pilot barely has to be able to fly an ILS and they get to keep their job.

Personally I still take pride in my professional appearance but the companies have made it very clear that they don't care if you look like a slob as long as you're willing to work cheap.

We've gone from $500 escorts to $10 hookers but the companies are still getting their happy endings

You are correct. Look at a few of the "professionals" on this board. Sigh.

Today's TOTD is this pilot which is making email rounds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B5epPFeoes

I hope it is fake or some prankster, but somehow I fear it is real. :eek:

That guy is delta material!!!!

From the accent he sounds like an Iranian.

Sounds more Indian to me. Not sure if they could violate him for anything, maybe tying up the freq?

Sounds like a doctor in a 182 belittling others to me. That's a real tool in my mind.

Leading by example. Nice. ;) .

You guys act like he has no right to voice an opinion because he is a Dr. flying a Cessna, you really need to get over yourselves. Just a wee bit.

Without a doubt it's fake.

Wow, excellent job making yourself today's TOTD with a single post, ironically in the TOTD thread. Congrats.

+1



Heard a guy arguing with a controller that he had filed for FL380 and he couldn't understand why he was "not getting the altitude he had filed for" :eek::eek:
Controller tried telling him as soon as traffic was out of the way he would climb him.......he still argued.....and also foreign :cool:

He is the owner of a flight school. Look in the comments

I saw that. My post was a reference to a poster here, but thank you for the info.

Ah. I uh.. haven't finished my coffee yet..

The psa captain in the crew room in PHL this am going off on the janitors, literally screaming on the phone becuase the sink was clogged in the men's room. Settle down colonel.

TOTD: Any former single seat, "fighter dude". Talk about a lack of ability to adapt. Yeah, you won the war, but which one? Flame on, but the egos have done little to help run a cockpit.

huh? any single-seat fighter dude...wow, way to leave the chicks out of it. Some damn fine fighter pilots are women....

(TOTD, meh--disgruntled wants their mantra back)

TOTD - guys who slot everyone based on their interaction with some. That butt hurt mentality is just as hard to live with.

Not sure where you work or if you might be a little thin skinned, but after working at a major for over two decades with it's share of single seat bubbas', I don't have a clue what you're talking about.

An extreme example. Drinking post flight beers after day 2 of 4 with an older FO I'd never flown with. Turns out we mutually knew another good guy CA who was texting him the standard buddy insults when he saw we were flying together. He shows me the text string and I ask why our mutual friend kept calling him "General". He humbly replies, "well, err, I was one and just recalled after retiring off active duty in USAF (Guard to active)

He had also flown F16's/Vipers/Falcons/Lawn Dart or whatever you call that cool little thingy. He was also a 2 Star. He acted like any other co worker without the slightest hint of airs or arrogance.

I agree. I've flown with more than my share of fighter/attack bubbas. Almost all were above average sticks and great guys to work with. Perhaps it was because we had military service in common, but I like to think my experience with them was pretty much universal.

Just because you've "lucked" into one of the marginal personalities doesn't make the whole group bad. Military or civilian background both have their Debbie Downers. Grit you teeth, grin and bear it. Next month is right around the corner.

I could also bring up a freight dog who wore epaulets.

Doesn't mean he was the norm.

Right side? Same clog that was there on Monday? :eek:

Reminds me of the pilot who went off on the ops. frequency gal for over blocking the flights in the winter because no gates were available for him. Everyone was arriving early because it was a nice clear day.

Or the ops guy that yelled at me for requesting a lav service be done too close to departure time.

When you're wholly owned, you don't have to take crAp from anyone. Especially from a clogged sink.

Yup,he went off the on the most likely foreign person on the phone and belittled him becausw he couldn't understand him over his yelling

What is going on here :confused:

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The original post was deleted, which I seen what it was but if you felt you we're in such danger, and the crew wasn't being safe why didn't you just stop by the flight deck on the ground in DSM and asked why the crew made the decision they made?

Just deleted the text. DENpilot was onboard and clearly upset with the decision making upfront. Must have been a wild ride.

Curious... if he was on the plane which was below 10,000 feet, how did he get that screen shot? Interwebz are inhibited on GoGo below 10.

That's around the time the tornado sirens were going off in Kansas City.

You can go to flight aware.com on the ground and just type in the flight number and the flight path including the wx at the time will be there.

Go jets 7am flight from Nashville to LGA.. Captain chad at the controls with Luke up here giving me a hand with the radios and navigation

Aren't we expanding GoGo to allow gate to gate usage? Or has that not started yesterday?

Why is there only 1 minute left on this flight as its climbing out of 7800 feet?