Vacancy Bid
07-14-2015, 07:31 PM
#151
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Joined APC: Feb 2014
Position: Head pillow fluffer, Assistant bed maker
Posts: 1,342
Appreciate that.
Just wanted to throw some facts into the discussion, and provided context for people to understand what "Good" and "Bad" flying is all about.
I'm excited about new hires getting LAX out of training. That's pretty cool. It's also neat to see that I could be 74% IAD 756 FO. Whoa....that happened fast.
Now if I could only figure out PBS! Watched the ALPA "Bidding Below the G Line" video. Hope it works. I'm super junior in LAX. Will find out Saturday morning.
In case any potential new hire has slogged through the bickering on this thread and wants to know, bids are awarded on 0001 on the 18th. I just don't know what 0001 it is. Eastern? Not sure, it's there in the morning when I wake up.
I'll end this with an invitation to share a Guppy study plan for any new hires with a break between BI and sim training. For any non-FMC military pilots.....holy cow, training is no joke. There is an expectation that you already know how to fly airliners.
Just wanted to throw some facts into the discussion, and provided context for people to understand what "Good" and "Bad" flying is all about.
I'm excited about new hires getting LAX out of training. That's pretty cool. It's also neat to see that I could be 74% IAD 756 FO. Whoa....that happened fast.
Now if I could only figure out PBS! Watched the ALPA "Bidding Below the G Line" video. Hope it works. I'm super junior in LAX. Will find out Saturday morning.
In case any potential new hire has slogged through the bickering on this thread and wants to know, bids are awarded on 0001 on the 18th. I just don't know what 0001 it is. Eastern? Not sure, it's there in the morning when I wake up.
I'll end this with an invitation to share a Guppy study plan for any new hires with a break between BI and sim training. For any non-FMC military pilots.....holy cow, training is no joke. There is an expectation that you already know how to fly airliners.
07-14-2015, 08:39 PM
#152
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Joined APC: Nov 2012
Posts: 1,085
No need for you to jump in on this Sleeves, given the contract you operated under that wasn't even the result of the CH11 process.
Last edited by CousinEddie; 07-14-2015 at 08:58 PM.
07-14-2015, 09:47 PM
#153
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Joined APC: Jan 2007
Position: FO
Posts: 266
Still learning. I now know that those two holes in the window frame are pen holders......only because a fellow FO left a pen in one.
DO NOT leave dinner trays on the cockpit luggage rack! You will forget, and it will get messy when auto brakes 3 kick in.
An intercom ding just after level off means it's cold in the back.
"Oxygen, Checked set 100%" is a good cue to make sure the mic switch isn't still in mask. Which it is half of the time.
DO NOT call O'hare ground at South Port. DEFINITELY don't call twice!
Let the jet line itself up with the runway in the wee hours of the morning.
Flaps beat the speed brake. Dangling the Dunlops trumps all.
If you're number one on the radar downwind, you're about to get slam dunked.
Flying fast to get home to LAX early = "Hotel short of 25R at Uniform, you're gate is occupied."
You're never too old to be a freshman again.
07-14-2015, 11:45 PM
#154
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Joined APC: Jul 2011
Position: Pressing On
Posts: 524
Answered your two assertions about hazing/harassment and having to self teach. Addressed both, and disagree completely about hazing. If CBT is self taught then you have a point, but days of classroom instruction on every system are gone.
07-15-2015, 03:45 AM
#155
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Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: 737 fo
Posts: 908
I recall an American pilot pointing out post 2002 that AA management had told APA that if they had the 2002 CAL contract at American, they could operate AA with about 1,000 fewer pilots.
No need for you to jump in on this Sleeves, given the contract you operated under that wasn't even the result of the CH11 process.
No need for you to jump in on this Sleeves, given the contract you operated under that wasn't even the result of the CH11 process.
07-15-2015, 03:59 AM
#156
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Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: 737 fo
Posts: 908
07-15-2015, 07:08 AM
#157
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Joined APC: Aug 2007
Posts: 862
pls know that I am united with all of our pilots in making this the best possible work place for our future.
BFD
07-15-2015, 07:19 AM
#158
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Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: 737 fo
Posts: 908
I did not intend my post as a slight to the admirable men and women on the 737 fleet (Which there are many). The intent was to warn any newer folks that the Houston training center ( more appropriately the "evaluation center) was not an experience to be taken lightly...come prepared to do battle! To dragon...who still seems to think I need bucking up and a dose of (unnecessary) advice, the 737 is not my 1st fleet at this company, but is certainly administered differently than the others. We should be united as one pilot group, one airline and One training method. Time will sort all of this out I am sure.
pls know that I am united with all of our pilots in making this the best possible work place for our future.
BFD
pls know that I am united with all of our pilots in making this the best possible work place for our future.
BFD
07-15-2015, 07:51 AM
#160
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Joined APC: May 2009
Position: The GF of FUPM
Posts: 3,073
BFD,
Some here are spring loaded to assume that ANY critique, no mater how valid and fact based, is a direct affront to the pilots of LCAL. Roll with it, you jumbonaut brain surgeon you. Just go choke the goose and destroy the airline.
Some here are spring loaded to assume that ANY critique, no mater how valid and fact based, is a direct affront to the pilots of LCAL. Roll with it, you jumbonaut brain surgeon you. Just go choke the goose and destroy the airline.
Last edited by oldmako; 07-15-2015 at 08:05 AM.
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