Well said Paco, Heloteacher, and especially John.
TO PPrune Fanny #1,
I`m glad you`ve noted the insults/criticism - they are well deserved. I hope you`re sitting comfortably on your quote "rosy red arse".
I couldn`t care less if you`ve got 10,000 or 30,000 hrs. It doesn`t mean anything. Attitude and professionalism - and knowing ones own personal limitations are what counts. You might have the latter - which is why you still grace the skies with your presence - but judging from your posts and the manner in which you deliver unthought out, ridiculous and frankly unfounded statements, indicates you have not an ounce of the first two.
The reason this industry is struggling at the moment is due to CPs and Ops Mgrs like you. More should take a leaf out of John`s book. The trouble is - they invest time, money and heartache into developing low time guys to get them industry ready.
AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS?
They get poached by a company with a CP like you - who wasn`t prepared to nurture the young inexperienced pilot, pay the insurance rates, accept the fact that YES a tail rotor strike MIGHT happen to this new guy - but they still do it. And that is why you get pilot resumes with 1000+ , because you don`t have the balls to take responsibility for the sub1000. If it weren`t for a few operators that do take that responsibility - this Industry would be in even more dire straits.
I know plenty of guys who got command VFR positions around the 2-300 mark - some even lower than that. Most of them on Turbines! It was their attitude etc that got them there - nothing to do with hours. Conversely, I have flown with pilots who have 4000, 6000, 12000 hrs.....who cares! I`ve had to take a deep breath on many occasion as to the danger they put themselves,crew and aircraft in - unneccesarily! Maybe they`re unconciously incompetent - I don`t know - it can happen to people at any stage in their career. The beauty is -- low time guys are conciously incompetent. They know they`re crap - which is the best position to be in.
It is plainly obvious that Braavo`s buddy would need a heck of a lot more experience to get such a job - that is what the industry demands for such a role - but that doesn`t mean he is incapable of doing it. The point I, and a lot of others take issue with is the comment "350hr Robbie pilot not ready for commercial work." I guess PP if you ran the CAA`s across the world you`d have everyone needing a full ATPL before being let loose. Yep, that would achieve a lot.
You keep on truckin there, sounds like you`re doing a fine job.
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Mods - this is well off topic, can Danny create a Jet Blast for rotorheads? or move this to a new thread? This thread is for job seekers - and they will only be disillusioned by this chief pilot who knows best.
I agree we're going well off topic, and I'll split it when I can find time. A 'Rotorheads Jetblast'? The only similarity with the type of posts on Jetblast is silly personal attacks on people with opposing opinions. Heliport