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09-13-2016, 03:32 PM
#3241
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2009
Posts: 1,464
Don't volunteer. If someone should and could be paid for the job, do not volunteer. This isn't a charity. It's a multi million dollar airline business.
09-13-2016, 03:47 PM
#3243
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2009
Posts: 1,464
Then don't end your sentence with the word volunteer
09-13-2016, 05:39 PM
#3244
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2015
Position: Guppy Gear Slinger
Posts: 1,997
I dunno about that. MH (LAX/FAT CP, everyone's favorite pilot) spent what, four months as a CA before being named ACP?
Also for CP/ACP it helps to have:
• No sense of empathy or compassion
• A stick jammed extremely far up your six
• A nice shiny hat, plus the gall to call out other pilots for not wearing the (not required) hat
• A startling lack of actual airmanship (speed limits below 10,000 feet? If you're a CP, they don't exist. 300 KIAS is just fine. Oh, and when your FO gently reminds you that you're about to inadvertently take off unpressurized because you shut down the APU on a 100-degree day in PHX in a fully-loaded CRJ-200 just to save the company money, but forgot to swap the bleeds to the engines...be sure to blame the ground controller for talking too much and distracting you. Do this, and you're perfect ACP/CP material.)
• The ability to use the phrase "for the good of the company" 100 times a day, and still be able to look at yourself in the mirror
There are certainly exceptions (RG being one of them), but do a trip with such wonderful human beings as MH and you will see what I mean...
Also for CP/ACP it helps to have:
• No sense of empathy or compassion
• A stick jammed extremely far up your six
• A nice shiny hat, plus the gall to call out other pilots for not wearing the (not required) hat
• A startling lack of actual airmanship (speed limits below 10,000 feet? If you're a CP, they don't exist. 300 KIAS is just fine. Oh, and when your FO gently reminds you that you're about to inadvertently take off unpressurized because you shut down the APU on a 100-degree day in PHX in a fully-loaded CRJ-200 just to save the company money, but forgot to swap the bleeds to the engines...be sure to blame the ground controller for talking too much and distracting you. Do this, and you're perfect ACP/CP material.)
• The ability to use the phrase "for the good of the company" 100 times a day, and still be able to look at yourself in the mirror
There are certainly exceptions (RG being one of them), but do a trip with such wonderful human beings as MH and you will see what I mean...
09-13-2016, 08:29 PM
#3245
Line Holder
Joined APC: Sep 2013
Posts: 42
Maybe your description to get the job of CP/ACP applies to some...but not all. HG (the LAX ACP) has NONE of those characteristics you described.
09-13-2016, 08:34 PM
#3246
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2014
Posts: 584
That's is the exact thing that helped me decide to move on. In that range and not only could I not get 75 hours, but I was constantly getting required minimum line value of 87 to 88 hours. So you either bid for high value trips (which have dropped off over the past 6 months) or low value locals which may or not be picked up. The good part about option 2 is that when you have to call in to get a day off, you don't have that much user time taken.
Had I been able to get a good schedule or drop a trip here or there, I may have stuck around just to enjoy my kids as they are growing up. As it stands now, I expect to commute back east and still figure I'll have just as many days off as a junior reserve as I did with SW after 9 years. Plus there will be some hope of it getting better vs the realization that it will never get better.
Had I been able to get a good schedule or drop a trip here or there, I may have stuck around just to enjoy my kids as they are growing up. As it stands now, I expect to commute back east and still figure I'll have just as many days off as a junior reserve as I did with SW after 9 years. Plus there will be some hope of it getting better vs the realization that it will never get better.
09-13-2016, 08:42 PM
#3247
Respek
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,637
It took me about a year and a half on property to get a Flight Ops job. After applying to a lot of positions I was met with a lot of frustration, it seemed the people they wanted to hire was already known and that they just had to interview as a formality. Don't let that get in the way just keep interviewing and eventually you'll get something.
09-13-2016, 09:15 PM
#3248
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2015
Position: Guppy Gear Slinger
Posts: 1,997
09-13-2016, 09:40 PM
#3249
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2009
Posts: 2,035
First, you'll need to know the difference between "apart", and "a part".
09-13-2016, 11:55 PM
#3250
Squawking 2000
Joined APC: Jul 2015
Position: Skeptical
Posts: 737
In a former life, I was a west coast guy and flew with all parties being discussed. Most of the ACPs and Flt Ops Sups were good guys. MH? He should not be trusted by any line pilot, and frankly he should never be in either pilot seat of any aircraft without a steadfast and confident LCA willing to take the controls regardless of who is in the other seat.
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