Yeah, MungoP...
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If you go from USA to Europe, with these green horns...
You better book your trip on a South American airline,
Miami to South America, enjoy a night there, then fly to Europe...
That is for your safety...
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Here our new hires have an ATPL (not stored in a "freezer") -
And 500 hours of JET time (JET does not include prop-jets) - Jet means REAL JET...
Oh - granted, our boys dont even know how to spell "MCC Licence"...
What is that, anyway, another piece of worthless paper...?
Guys with a "deluxe CPL" of 309.5 hrs and "frozen-whatever-you-call-it" are C-152 captains.
In Argentina, they are authorized to scare their overweight mother-in-laws only.
So they are in command of a Cessna one-fifty-TOO HEAVY.
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Get with the 21st Century, MungoP, as el Seņor Turkish777 tells you.
Me, in Europe, it is TGV-Thalys, Deutsches Bundesbahn, or SNCF...
I dont like to wait for ticketing and bags anyway.
And still be at 35 km of the city I go to...
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With the TGV from Brussels to Paris, 1 H 20 minutes.
From heart of the city, to heart of the city.
No need to show 90 minutes in advance at 7:00AM at an airport.
And still wait for your bags to arrive at 12:30PM... and be late for lunch.
The TGV "pilot" does not read his book "how to drive a train in 10 lessons"...
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Happy contrails
And "Teshe", Turkish, enjoy a glass of Raki for me...