Single Pilot Airline Ops - Yikes!
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Single Pilot Airline Ops - Yikes!
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Europe]Europe Mulls Single-Pilot Airline Ops | Flying Magazine Mulls Single-Pilot Airline Ops | Flying Magazine
CX eagerly waiting to see if it can be done with just a S/O
Europe]Europe Mulls Single-Pilot Airline Ops | Flying Magazine Mulls Single-Pilot Airline Ops | Flying Magazine
CX eagerly waiting to see if it can be done with just a S/O
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When the RH seat is occupied by a 250hr,24 y old with all the manuals in flight bag, to all intents and purposes it is SPOs.
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To make that absurd comment your credentials are what? PPL with a night rating??
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If you're a 200hr Pay to fly 'pilot' you are not a colleague.
You're a loser who couldn't, whether thru skill or personality get a proper first flying job on your own. Given the people you're flying with got their starts in the military, flying bush, or small regional airlines, you should expect to be treated with disdain.
No one with so little experience is qualified to sit in that seat, and indeed the Captain would be single pilot.
You're a loser who couldn't, whether thru skill or personality get a proper first flying job on your own. Given the people you're flying with got their starts in the military, flying bush, or small regional airlines, you should expect to be treated with disdain.
No one with so little experience is qualified to sit in that seat, and indeed the Captain would be single pilot.
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Depends on the training, in my opinion. There are plenty of 'seasoned' pilots who are useless. Some of the most experienced and 'revered' guys have been by far the worst operators I've worked with. Some of the least experienced have been some of the finest. Let's face it, there's nobody with a sloppier attitude and work ethic than the average Aussie RQ.
Ryainair, for example - the ultimate pay to fly regime, is pretty much an EU- based Emirates training centre. Can't be to bad.
I have a mate who left RYR for BA, and said his RYR training and colleagues on the whole were at least as well trained, and in terms of hand-flying and recency, as really rather good.
I'm not condoning pay to fly, by the way. It's cancerous. However, quality of training is what counts.
There are thousands of pilots coming out of training whose timing is off by a few years. That's not their fault. At a different time, many of these would have been selected by the myriad of airlines hiring at the time. Unfortunately, that's gone for now, and sadly, one of the only options left (in the EU) is pay to play. I understand that after spanking US$150000 on your training - another US$60000 to ensure the previous $150k wasn't wasted probably seems like good logic.
Try not to be so embittered and cynical.
Ryainair, for example - the ultimate pay to fly regime, is pretty much an EU- based Emirates training centre. Can't be to bad.
I have a mate who left RYR for BA, and said his RYR training and colleagues on the whole were at least as well trained, and in terms of hand-flying and recency, as really rather good.
I'm not condoning pay to fly, by the way. It's cancerous. However, quality of training is what counts.
There are thousands of pilots coming out of training whose timing is off by a few years. That's not their fault. At a different time, many of these would have been selected by the myriad of airlines hiring at the time. Unfortunately, that's gone for now, and sadly, one of the only options left (in the EU) is pay to play. I understand that after spanking US$150000 on your training - another US$60000 to ensure the previous $150k wasn't wasted probably seems like good logic.
Try not to be so embittered and cynical.
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Let's face it, there's nobody with a sloppier attitude and work ethic than the average Aussie RQ.
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AAIGUY,
Next time you find yourself in the seat with a 200hr loser, declare an emergency for you believe there is only one qualified pilot at the controls.
Next time you find yourself in the seat with a 200hr loser, declare an emergency for you believe there is only one qualified pilot at the controls.
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Yes, we did. And it was not in the right seat of a wide body airliner with 400 people aboard.
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If you're a 200hr Pay to fly 'pilot' you are not a colleague.
You're a loser who couldn't, whether thru skill or personality get a proper first flying job on your own.
You're a loser who couldn't, whether thru skill or personality get a proper first flying job on your own.
I did not pass the recruitment assessments and became an airline pilot a different way that involved a lot of money.
Therefore I am one of those pay-to-fly 200hr guys who did find himself in the RH-seat of a 737 and after a couple of years, a Classic Freighter.
Apart from the fact that I failed the BA recruitment stage, do you really consider me a loser just because I paid for it you arrogant pr@ck? You are the one with SJS. You believe that you have the monopoly on a wide-body purely because you worked your way up? Get over it, and wind your neck in old man.
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Which is why wide bodies are awarded to the more senior folks eligible to bid, and allow the schedule and time off associated with that seniority.
oh, wait, I forgot where I work.....
oh, wait, I forgot where I work.....
