Reply by FR8: Your screen name says it all, if you don't like it, you can always find a job somewhere else. If you had been at a MAJOR like you say, you would have been at the panel for 10 - 15 years before you saw the right seat anyway. Maybe in that time you might have gotten some experience in something other than a 152 or a Seneca. 98% of the FE upgrades at Atlas have had no PIC time in anything other than a light twin. Just because you pass a line check with a check airman does not mean you are ready to command an 800000+ lb jet around the world. Suffice it to say, your comment on experience alone proves my point.
FR8
Maybe you need to borrow my screen name since you're showing some, no a lot of ignorance. For one, you can't find a quality job somewhere else as I don't know if you have noticed -- probably because you need to pull your head out of your posterior end -- but there have been a lot of furloughs lately. Don't forget the job losses as well from airlines going under. No reason to tell you where, as you should be able to figure that out by yourself.
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WAS at the Majors and saw firsthand how in a little over year folks were able to move from the F.E. seat to the right seat of a 727. Now, by no fault of my own, I'm on a furlough status. This was happening as recently as 2002 before the birds were sent to the dessert. Again, by all means please use my screen name.
There are a lot of guys/gals out there that had zero PIC time flying RJ's during an upgrade, flew turboprops, etc. How else do you get that PIC time? You gotta get in the seat don't ya?
Comment experience? Are you nucking futs???? Twenty three years in the industry, five type ratings to include the 737, 747, 747-400 and thousands of hours in the both seats.
How do you think you get experience? You sit in the seat and get it -- Period. Does that mean that a type rating gives you the "experience" to command a jet around the world as you put it? No. However, sitting in the right seat after sitting sidesaddle with a RIGHTFUL seniority number is an obvious yes. And before you assume, again, I did not sit in the F.E. seat. I only think it's wrong to put a different number on a person sitting behind you.
Something tells me that you're one of those "I AM CAPTAIN HERE ME ROAR TYPES" If you're in the left seat at all. But unlike yourself, I will not make any assumptions about you or your experience.
Again, please, by all means use my screen name.
Go ahead an respond you get the last word.
As for DeltaBravoWiskey -- no need to respond to your post as I already know your stance and your views as you're one of those that was on the bandwagon for the Teamsters. What a nice mess it is now with not enough money to pay bills and an assesment coming. Real smart on that one. Hope it worked out for you individually (which I'm sure it did) as you didn't show any team playing on that vote, either.