Why is it so hard to find good pilets?
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I think you are all once again missing the point, and missed the part where I said
"I do not for a minute advocate breaking the rules which keep us alive, just knowing that there is more than one way to skin a cat, is what seperates the good from the average. "
Most MDA's for an NDB app are around the 800' mark, yet you can fly at 500' AGL with 5k vis all day long. If the cloud gets too low well then you just have to go to your MSA, do the epproach when you get there, if you don't get in you fly to the alternate that you have fuel for because your dest didn't meet the min for alt requirments. If you are flying around in a single then you wouldn't be thinking of doing an app with pax in the first place, would you? It's all pretty simple really. However you would be surprised how many pilots just do not understand.
My above quote goes for duty times also, please don't extrapolate what I say into busting duty times.
As I work for an all multi outfit, I am only talking in the context of twin flying and about pilots who already have a fair amount of time, yet who still cannot think outside the square, and who will get upset at having to do an 11PM (usually freight) run even if they are on standby.
You NT boys and your greivences about a certain operator up there are starting to get a bit like the '89ers, with your probs finding their way into all manner of posts. There is another 90% of the GA workforce located elsewhere.
Chuck
In the past few years in OZ CASA has changed from chasing the pilot to chasing the operator, as a pilot is only too willing to blow the whistle on an operator if his own butt is not going to be spanked as well.
At the end of the day, the average pilot will try and find a reason why the job cannot be done, and the good pilot will try and work out a way that the job can be done WHILST STAYING WITHIN THE LAW. Most pilots know the regs which forbid this, that and the other, a good pilot knows the CAO's which allow him to do this, that and the other.
"I do not for a minute advocate breaking the rules which keep us alive, just knowing that there is more than one way to skin a cat, is what seperates the good from the average. "
Most MDA's for an NDB app are around the 800' mark, yet you can fly at 500' AGL with 5k vis all day long. If the cloud gets too low well then you just have to go to your MSA, do the epproach when you get there, if you don't get in you fly to the alternate that you have fuel for because your dest didn't meet the min for alt requirments. If you are flying around in a single then you wouldn't be thinking of doing an app with pax in the first place, would you? It's all pretty simple really. However you would be surprised how many pilots just do not understand.
My above quote goes for duty times also, please don't extrapolate what I say into busting duty times.
As I work for an all multi outfit, I am only talking in the context of twin flying and about pilots who already have a fair amount of time, yet who still cannot think outside the square, and who will get upset at having to do an 11PM (usually freight) run even if they are on standby.
You NT boys and your greivences about a certain operator up there are starting to get a bit like the '89ers, with your probs finding their way into all manner of posts. There is another 90% of the GA workforce located elsewhere.
Chuck
In the past few years in OZ CASA has changed from chasing the pilot to chasing the operator, as a pilot is only too willing to blow the whistle on an operator if his own butt is not going to be spanked as well.
At the end of the day, the average pilot will try and find a reason why the job cannot be done, and the good pilot will try and work out a way that the job can be done WHILST STAYING WITHIN THE LAW. Most pilots know the regs which forbid this, that and the other, a good pilot knows the CAO's which allow him to do this, that and the other.
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G'day Pullpower , as an ex instructor I've since learnt to be productive with an aircraft but now need to make use of those other ratings currently gathering dust.
Pls contact if interested.
Pls contact if interested.
I used to get into stand up blues with a shonky ex-employer. He'd go around like a bull at a gate, ignoring breaking regs all over the place.
It even got to the point that other pilots were prohibited from talking to me because I "knew the rules too well". He even made a point of hiring relatively inexperienced ie <300hrs, because they'd do anything they were told to do.
The stupid arrogant b@stard never realised that it is nearly always possible to get the same job done legally if you just know which rules are able to be applied. Sometimes a bit off negotiation with the customer is necessary, but presenting things like that in a positive light ispart of doing business.
Thank christ he was shut down years ago.
It even got to the point that other pilots were prohibited from talking to me because I "knew the rules too well". He even made a point of hiring relatively inexperienced ie <300hrs, because they'd do anything they were told to do.
The stupid arrogant b@stard never realised that it is nearly always possible to get the same job done legally if you just know which rules are able to be applied. Sometimes a bit off negotiation with the customer is necessary, but presenting things like that in a positive light ispart of doing business.
Thank christ he was shut down years ago.
Last edited by Tinstaafl; 11th Apr 2002 at 18:33.
