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Old 12th May 2024 | 00:54
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JoeFreshbaker
 
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From: DXB
Hmmm...

Dear Simon,

your post here at PPRuNe and your website are making the rounds already - most likely - not only in my peer group. It will be hard to explain your future employer (hopefully permanent) why you logged very few hours already in three different outfits, none of them widely known for its outstanding training or safety culture. Please keep in mind for your career that changes of company are big things, even if they were scam or go bankrupt after you joined, blame can go down on you for bad planning or lack of information gathering.

I think brining up this matter with your real name and License Number on your website was a huuuge mistake, even though there's a chance that all your claims are 100% correct, it can't be proven easily and in doubt an airline HR donkey will have huge concerns about your personality. Btw. WE PILOTS NEVER share our license number in public, keep it in mind Mr DK.FCL.1XXXX4, because there's someone waiting for a good career at Correndon NL.

I really honor that you already have a side business and studies running, but for airlines it also looks like they can't have you a 100% when they need it. That's something for 3.000h++ FOs bored by waiting for a free seat on the left. If you do it to survive, do it, but don't make it bigger than necessary, right now your focus must be a 100% on your biggest passion aviation. I'm sorry to say, but being a pilot is in most cases a bit more than a job, unfortunately it's a life with little room left for wife/husband, kids and friends, what's considered as mental health factors (or the exact opposite sometimes).

I'm the Windows 98 Generation, so I have to admit that I don't understand a lot of this social media stuff, but most of the senior pilots (the one you're sitting face to face at the interview) are the same. I don't like pilots uploading pictures of themself in our uniform regularly or showing colleagues or company documents in the Internet. I have absolutely no problem with the first if I have the impression that he/she is doing a good job because he/she deserves to represent us. But nowadays I see way to many low blowers feeling comfortable with their mediocre/poor performance, likely because the feedback on Instagram is more important than their performance on duty. Maybe you go a bit below the radar until you're a pilot, right now you're just a license holder ready to be kissed by captains to become a princess one day.

Last but not least the Pilot community is pretty small, unless you start and retire within a big legacy it's easy to get information about anyone, because somehow we're all connected and if the claims about gross misbehavior are true, the source is just a phone call away. I think even I know a LTC at Armageddon Express and I left Europe in the last century to China and UAE. So if it's true, you'll need to do a 180 and get back on track.

I hope I could give you some free of charge ideas how you can make it into a cockpit and become a pilot one day. You're welcome!

Whoever said there are no bad rooms in a Hilton or Bad Western, thanks for the laugh! Mariott never disappoints indeed.

Regards!

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