Cleared4appch

This right here X1000. Screw the ‘time builders.’ Don’t feel bad for taking their spot. It’s not ‘their spot’ to begin with. If they want to build time via flight instructing, they can put in the hard work and dedication. They can search for a CFI job. These days it’s not hard to find a CFI job anyway, so don’t feel like you’re taking anyone’s ‘spot.’ It’s not anyone particular individual’s spot. It can belong to anyone who is dedicated to teaching and giving back to the next generation of pilots. Regardless of that person’s age or experience level or where they’re at in their career.

Quite frankly there are too many damn time builders in general aviation and it’s extremely difficult to flush them out and to keep them out. They’re like leeches. They feed off of students’ time and money to build their logbooks while giving hardly anything back. In the meantime, the student suffers, and will continue to suffer. Civilian aviation always has and hate to say it, but always will have this serious problem. It drives me up the wall.

Take that CFI job. Don’t feel bad. With your experience and skill level and the knowledge and skills you could pass down to students, is invaluable. It will also force the ‘time-builder’ CFI’s to work harder to compete for a CFI position. If working along side some of the young time build instructors, it will likely foster a competitive environment for them to work harder with their students and be a good instructor since they know they are working with a current/retired airline pilot who likely has decades of experience. You could be a good mentor for those other CFI’s, something that is severely lacking in the CFI ranks. It will be harder for them overall, not easier, which is good. It may very well force them to up their teaching game.

JamesNoBrakes

Yes, but we already covered this. That was not what I was addressing.

hopp

The problem here is cameras and social media clowns. This has been going on for decades, ( well, letting them up on the jump seat anyway, and flight attendants sitting in pilots seat during pee breaks), without incident. I can personally name several,baseball coaches and at least one world series winning pitcher who have sat on jump seats. Unfortunately, these days there are people willing to push the envelope a little too far. In the past no one was stupid enough to film and publish it on the inter webs.

Tesla S

so, the problem here isn't the intentional disregard for the rules? The only problem is recording it?

Bestglide

Both.......!

dmeg13021

Some rules are more important than others

BobbyLeeSwagger

This thread has finally come full circle 👏

rustypigeon

You may disagree with PipeMan, but there is obvious peacocking from the captain.

Constant giggling, voice inflections and exaggerated high pitched voice... Do you think she talks like that when she orders coffee at Starbucks?

I counted about 6 giggles in a one minute video. 6 GPM combined with the increased voice pitch supports PipeMan's theory.

MasterOfPuppets

oh so you know her voice? How do you know it wasn’t a FA?

AntiPeter

Because all of the UAL FAs are male and/or over 93 years old. D'uh.