The captain on the last flight of the night commute home the other week who couldn't give a rat's arse to help me out with a ride home. Looked me straight in the eye and shrugged as the gate agent said no. Karma man. Karma.

What a spineless d!ck!!! I hope you get to repay the favor to him in one form or another someday. Be sure to shrug your shoulder and smile.

i feel like this story is missing context

Not really, ran up last minute wasn't really expecting to get on (we all know might as well try until it pulls away) but since the captain was at the gate thought he might at least feign an interest in helping me out. Nada.

Hmmm.. Not expecting to get on... How last minute were you? Did the crew have their numbers? Were all pax and nov-revs, if any onboard with the main entry way ready to be closed? Last leg of a six leg day? Was the captain giving line training? Did the captain want to finish the day to catch a flight to his home town for his days off? Were you worth the captain for being written up for a delay so you could get on his flight?

File a report with your company’s jump seat coordinator if you think you have a legitimate gripe.

Yeah, showing up last minute is fairly relevant context. Sure, I've shown up way late because I'd just stepped off another flight, and been pleasantly surprised that they took the extra effort to get me on the plane. But it's whole 'nother thing to adopt the attitude that the captain has the obligation to override his co-worker who is just following a reasonable policy, potentially causing the agent to redo work already completed.

Wrong. Didn't you know the world revolves around velosnow?

/s

It does? Oh, that changes everything. My bad!!! ;)

Yeah he isn't really standing on firm ground on this one. But as a CA, I would have gotten the guy on if mathematically feasible, even if it took a delay.

Time lost is $. Just a matter of degree. Or the willingness to notice.

That's fine, and I too have taken delays and such to get a jumpseater on when I could have more easily not done so. It's a huge leap from doing that out of your own good will; to you having an obligation to do that, and you're "tool of the day" if you don't.

Whew, tough crowd. It has far less to do with me not getting on than his meek response that made it 'toolish'. A simple, "hey man sorry wish we could help you out" would've sufficed.

I've done all manner of things to get folks on over the years and the two times I couldn't I apologized and told them exactly why. One of which response qualifies for ultimate tool label but we'll save that story for another day.

So if I'm the tool here for expecting this guy to at least offer some semblance of empathy or professional courtesy about a fellow pilot getting home so be it.

TOTD!!!

Read up on Captain’s Authority how you got that jumpseat in the first place.

TOTD

The CFI at ERAU who embarrassed the profession by flying an RJ displaying poor airmanship by not only stalling once but twice in a row and in general being an embarrassment to the profession.

Dat sentence structure doe

That person is actually a former WB Captain for a Legacy. Probably never flew a CRJ before hopping in to give a demonstration.

I got to say I'm a little skeptical she was a Wide Body captain. A google of her name brings up bios saying she was at Hawaiian. She claims to have flown the DC-10. A poster in the other thread said that she was furloughed after 9/11 which seems consistent with her various Bios online. I'll concede that don't know the extent of Hawaiian's furlough (s?) in the early 2000's, but furloughing all the way up to widebody captain would be pretty deep furloughs at any airline. Also, multiple Bios put her flight experience at "more than 5,000 hours" which is another way of saying "Less than 6,000". Just how fast were DC-10 upgrades at Hawaiian in the 1990's ?




I'd say that was more a commentary on her judgment and ego than a valid excuse for the performance.





Interesting phenomenon: A pilot query on the FAA's database shows no pilot with her name, and no female pilot with her last name. Not sure what to make of that. AFAIK, you can decline to have your address listed in publicly accessible part of the FAA records, but you can't opt out completely. FOIA and all that. There was a big thing about that a decade ago or thereabouts.

In a 2008 article, she was going by by the name Michelle Summers-Halleran. FAA doesn't show any pilots with the last name Summers-Halleran, however, there is a Michelle Summers living in Port Orange. Shows a Lear Type rating (Bio said she flew Lears) MES rating (Bio says she flew Twin Otters on floats) FE turbojet, which would be consistent with Hawaiian new-hire, but no DC-10 rating (or any other Wide Body aircraft)



I'm going with, no, she wasn't a Wide Body captain anywhere.

Common enough for flight academy staff to puff up their credentials to impress the noobs. No surprise there.

That's terrible. I have no experience with ERAU or flight academies but that is troubling.

ERAU may have vetted their alumnist... but, clearl, ynot her plan of action. It’s apparent ERAU have an elective course on how to claw one’s way to the bottom?

Well, to be fair, I didn't see anywhere that *she* claimed to have been a widebody captain. That was from the poster above. No idea where he got that notion.

Had her for a class way back. She was a WX professor. Said she only flew lears at the time. Didn’t have much experience from what I got from it but my memory is foggy.

I stand corrected, she was a Lear CA, and a DC10 FO, I got the two mixed up. That makes sense with being furloughed. Doesn’t appear typed, but if you remember FOs didn’t need to be typed until 05.

Yes.

Engine failure followed by cabin depressurisation nothing more.

The crew did a great job getting everyone home safely, but I’m not sure how you make a news story out of it.

Furthermore, I can’t imagine any rational pilot would participate in a sensationalised news story particularly in a filmed simulator session of an aircraft I have little experience in without he minimum required crew.

I’m betting the actual event was NOTHING like this.

The smurf today who asked me, “Are you crew?” while comparing my crew ID to the KCM database.

It was a trick question. ;)

Only a real crew member would know the answer.

Are you TSA?

Aw gee. did the little pilot get his big ego hurt?:(

Making a small penis comment and now this one? Feeling a bit Napoleon-ish lately, jns?? :eek:

Wait are we done with the Riddler already?

She's getting blasted on her own thread. I would say far from done!

ERAU pulled the video, however the it's still out there.

I'm guessing they are realizing what an embarrassing display of airmanship it is.

Honesty it’s nice to see that they realized that..how this even got approved is beyond me.

When you introduce yourself with a callsign, tell me I need to listen to a a specific frequency (not guard or fingers) on my radio on speaker and refuse to use the intercom you’re the TOTD.

Enough said

But what if I call myself Sexual Chocolate?

Captain George aka Maverick?