Koreanair A380 tail strike NRT
That one?
B777 there was a new ferringhi, with "assistance" from an airforce mafia LCP in the "flare".
737NG, good luck in your career. After about 2 months you will find it very easy to sleep soundly at night.
There are good Korean pilots, in fact Asiana has many. There are even very good ex military pilots... but the corporate culture of the company compounds all communication & operational issues that occur in all companies, and makes for an unnecessarily unpleasant and dysfunctional program.
The 6 Sigma sign in the main hangar: "ZERO DEFECTS" kind of belies any corporate understanding of human factors, and that pretty much is reflected throughout the program.
One day the Koreans may accept the presence of foreigners gracefully, but that is not the norm and it is corrosive in the flight deck environment. Curiously, the discomfort exists within national crews as well, where the crew mix of age and background results in less than desirable surrounds.
737NG, good luck in your career. After about 2 months you will find it very easy to sleep soundly at night.
There are good Korean pilots, in fact Asiana has many. There are even very good ex military pilots... but the corporate culture of the company compounds all communication & operational issues that occur in all companies, and makes for an unnecessarily unpleasant and dysfunctional program.
The 6 Sigma sign in the main hangar: "ZERO DEFECTS" kind of belies any corporate understanding of human factors, and that pretty much is reflected throughout the program.
One day the Koreans may accept the presence of foreigners gracefully, but that is not the norm and it is corrosive in the flight deck environment. Curiously, the discomfort exists within national crews as well, where the crew mix of age and background results in less than desirable surrounds.
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737NG, good luck in your career. After about 2 months you will find it very easy to sleep soundly at night.
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From what I gather reading and hearing from ex-KAL expats, I wonder why there is still people making a bee line for KAL interviews! I was told be recruiters that thousands of applications were made every month; it's only the stubborn Koreans who keep on rejecting so many that they now have a perpetual recruitment exercise.
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As alluded by some, the riff raffs come to KAL with super high hopes for high adventure with big bucks. Maybe the Koreans believe that it's worth replacing local junk with foreign trash! This is going to lead to a self perpetuating cycle of recyclables; maybe the standards are so low that as people say " one man's junk is another's treasure "!
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B777 there was a new ferringhi, with "assistance" from an airforce mafia LCP in the "flare".
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Gust to 32??
Do you fly Narita? I can tell you Narita with gusts of 32 and even less gets pretty nasty and landing a new airplane like the 380 is very easy to be critic from the computer...I don't wish that trouble to any pilot I don't care where he is from...safe landings...
