A sign of the times
So what price would you pay to loll around beaches with cabin crew and sleep at work!?
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This is exactly why I prefer to work in corporate business aviation....still comply with the rules but that's still is a real job where you "touch" airplanes every day, if you see what i mean boys!
In any case, please, see your job as the most rewarding in the World, we are lucky to fly these days...
cheers
In any case, please, see your job as the most rewarding in the World, we are lucky to fly these days...
cheers
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Lear Jockey;
Like you I got out of the airlines for corporate aviation. Now its' all catching up with me. I'm 46, a management pilot flying FW and rotary and spend most of my time tied up in "quality" audits, CAA b******s and covering everyone else's a***. I still love late evenings, positioning back to base at the end of a long day, watching the sunset and then letting down to a dark airfield. I am still amazed at why the machines fly, I still gaze in awe at some of the mmost magnificent views which earth bound people will never see. I just wish CAA/EASA/HSE/ICAO and airport security would just f*** off and let me get on with being an aviator!
I own a little puddlejumper and in that aeroplane I have re-discovered so much of the joy of flight, an evening pottering around the local area followed by a beer in the flying club, or an early morning wake up doing aeros reminds me of why at 17 I did my PPL and started on this road.
Will I miss it when the end comes? Yes lots of it, but if my ECG goes wrong next month I won't fret too much. And I certainly won't miss todays task, auditing the paperwork for an up-coming CAA audit!
Like you I got out of the airlines for corporate aviation. Now its' all catching up with me. I'm 46, a management pilot flying FW and rotary and spend most of my time tied up in "quality" audits, CAA b******s and covering everyone else's a***. I still love late evenings, positioning back to base at the end of a long day, watching the sunset and then letting down to a dark airfield. I am still amazed at why the machines fly, I still gaze in awe at some of the mmost magnificent views which earth bound people will never see. I just wish CAA/EASA/HSE/ICAO and airport security would just f*** off and let me get on with being an aviator!
I own a little puddlejumper and in that aeroplane I have re-discovered so much of the joy of flight, an evening pottering around the local area followed by a beer in the flying club, or an early morning wake up doing aeros reminds me of why at 17 I did my PPL and started on this road.
Will I miss it when the end comes? Yes lots of it, but if my ECG goes wrong next month I won't fret too much. And I certainly won't miss todays task, auditing the paperwork for an up-coming CAA audit!
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Hello Gentlemen,
I agree with all that has been said - it isn't was it once was. Some of the rewards of not having lost all my memory (despite family, ha ha) is remembering all the fun crews flown with in the past, and fun overnights. Even better was the days before CYA, FOQA, etc. when professional pride and standards kept the vast majority of airplanes from being bent. You have to find the enjoyment in today where you can, bring your best sense of humor to work, you may be the only one doing so. My current fun is just returning last week to captain the DC-9, a relic of the old days - what could be better? In 2009, this classic, flying in the USA, NO RNAV, no FMS, no auto-throttles, a/p not auto-land capable, round dials, every take-off so loud it sets off car alarms for 5 miles around every airport = pure bliss!
I agree with all that has been said - it isn't was it once was. Some of the rewards of not having lost all my memory (despite family, ha ha) is remembering all the fun crews flown with in the past, and fun overnights. Even better was the days before CYA, FOQA, etc. when professional pride and standards kept the vast majority of airplanes from being bent. You have to find the enjoyment in today where you can, bring your best sense of humor to work, you may be the only one doing so. My current fun is just returning last week to captain the DC-9, a relic of the old days - what could be better? In 2009, this classic, flying in the USA, NO RNAV, no FMS, no auto-throttles, a/p not auto-land capable, round dials, every take-off so loud it sets off car alarms for 5 miles around every airport = pure bliss!
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hi folks,
sorry to be harsh, but for all those who are complaining, I've got a simple question ?
Do you vote for anti-establishment party ? if yes you're on the right track. If no, you get what you deserve.
sorry to be harsh, but for all those who are complaining, I've got a simple question ?
Do you vote for anti-establishment party ? if yes you're on the right track. If no, you get what you deserve.
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Coming back to my earlier post, in the early days of my career I used to despair of balding old farts with their reading glasses on the ends of their noses bitching about pay, rosters, the company and the world in general, but I loved their humour.
Now my hair is going fast, reading glasses are essential and I have the same complaints. I only hope I can make the job as much fun for the young guys and girls I work with now as the old farts did when I was a youngster and they were guiding me between the bear traps, enlisting my aid in smuggling a goose into a hostie's room, teaching me how to fill in my allowances, persuading the entire CC of a KLM flight into dancing in a hotel fountain and turning out all the lights so I could experience the wonders of the Aurora Borealis for the first time, and giving me a nudge so I could enjoy sunrise over the Atlas Mountains.
They all used to tell me I'd be like them one day, I hope I am.
Now my hair is going fast, reading glasses are essential and I have the same complaints. I only hope I can make the job as much fun for the young guys and girls I work with now as the old farts did when I was a youngster and they were guiding me between the bear traps, enlisting my aid in smuggling a goose into a hostie's room, teaching me how to fill in my allowances, persuading the entire CC of a KLM flight into dancing in a hotel fountain and turning out all the lights so I could experience the wonders of the Aurora Borealis for the first time, and giving me a nudge so I could enjoy sunrise over the Atlas Mountains.
They all used to tell me I'd be like them one day, I hope I am.
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Someone said one day: "The day you find a profession you love, you will never have to work again".
That's how I feel...I never go to work, I fly!
(I'm tired of being on this layover...but, tomorrow I'm flying home).
Fly Safe and have fun.
That's how I feel...I never go to work, I fly!
(I'm tired of being on this layover...but, tomorrow I'm flying home).
Fly Safe and have fun.
