Right of answer!
Dear All, and especially United and Finger,
It is with disgust that I have been reading your posts, and especially the last two ones. Hiding behind a fake name while clearly trying to inflict personal damage to people that are hard working colleagues and pilots, probably like you, is an absolute dishonorable act!
In fact, it does not make you any different than the facts you yourselves accuse your management team of!
So therefore I thought it was time to, for once, change this rumor network to a facts network. Let me point out to you that I do this on a personal initiative and that the company we all work for has NOTHING to do with these posts of mine!
As I do not believe facts can be revealed under the umbrella of fake names, I have chosen to step out of the anonymity (so well known and abused here on PPrune). So here I am. Although I have a pretty good idea of who you are, that does not matter at all so please go ahead and continue to use your beloved usernames.
Many of the management pilots you accused here have worked, and still continue to do so, really hard to get their jobs done. Often they have to fight against strict deadlines, changing company requirements, etc…all as a result of the massive expansion plans you all are benefitting from. (Or did you think joining as DEC B777 is a normal career move? Moving from right to left on A330/B777 is a normal career move?).
So they (and me as well) do their jobs the best they can, believe me, many times this is done on personal time and initiative. I agree, this is not always done perfectly (a management pilot remains a human being) and most probably many of you had situations where you did not agree, but overall they do continue to deliver. Those of you that have been here long enough surely must admit that this company has come a very long way.(remember 2002 with 1 A330, 6 A300s and I believe 12 A320's)
Pilots will be pilots and one of the characteristics of our psychological profile is that we always think we are correct. And by we I mean pilots in general. So many of you have very strong opinions about the way your department is being managed, although in most cases you do not even have 25% of the actual facts to base that opinion on. That’s fine; pilots are human beings as well.
But that does NOT give you the right to vent your frustrations on a public forum and to go and accuse fellow pilots of the craziest things, all based on rumors! The fact that you tried to act smart by only using two letters of a name does not change this at all. Everyone reading this knows exactly whom you are talking about…
So to prove that you are frauds anyway, I am willing to engage in the following challenge.
You accused me of:
K.V - based his upgrades and career on reporting Captains and being close to every chief pilot or chief training as they changed (except S.S)
Mmmhhh, interesting. It took me almost 5 years to get my command, which is more than what most FO’s have to go through nowadays. I was upgraded on an A320 while the groups before me, aswell as a while after me, where given the chance to stay on the A330.
I joined A320 type rated and I only received an A330 rating after 2 years.
So all in all a very normal and average career progress.
But still you claim that I reported colleagues to get my upgrade and to follow this career path? I am sincerely wondering then what all those pilots have been doing, receiving 4 type ratings in 4 years and being given a command upgrade on A330/B777.
Anyway:
Challenge: Give me (us) one (1) name of a pilot I reported in all my years flying. Only one! Send it to my PM or post it here. You will not be able to find one single name! (Facts plse, not rumors)
The second part of the accusation is even more ridiculous. I am being accused of being close to every CP or CPT as they changed (except S.S.). OK.
Where exactly is the problem here? I have been here a long time and many of these people did become personal friends over the years. I have been active as a ground instructor since 2004 so yes, I do/did have a close working relationship with training management.
Is this a crime?
(The except S.S. I find extremely interesting as a) not true b) nice direction finder)
But yet you dare to use this accusation to point out that working with me would be proof of having “low aviation dignity”.
I can only talk for myself and that is why I personally chose to step out into the open, but I can assure you that I would instantly stick my hands into a burning fire for most of my fellow management pilots. And they could give you challenges like this one, all of which you would probably loose!
So please, unless you can factually prove me wrong, get your facts straight and think before you start talking.
And if you do feel so strongly about these points, have the guts to come and tell me (us) straight in our face, just like Alcatraz69 said. If you are correct, I will listen and try to change it, if you are wrong I will give you the facts why you are wrong. You all know where I live…the door is open! And I am sure this is valid for most of my colleagues.
But don’t be the coward you have been until now, spreading rumors on an anonymous network. Rumors that can inflict damage on a person, on a company and on yourself and that are only based on self invented drivel!
I am looking forward to the replies.
K. Verbraeken
PS: I am not interested in pissing contests, endless discussions about spelling mistakes etc.
DISCLAIMER: This post has been made on a personal initiative only, and does not reflect any opinion (in the widest meaning of the wording) of any company, corporation or enterprise that might be mentioned. The person writing only wished to express a personal opinion about his personal case.