Rich Pulman

Yes and no. Yes, it’s fake. No, they wouldn’t be looking up. The dust storm a helicopter that size would create would have everyone trying to bury there head somewhere where the Sun doesn’t shine.

I was out buying lightbulbs and Oreo cookies. Missed the actual event, but thanks to my shopping list was able to recreate it in the comfort of my own dungeon.

Got a chuckle out of . That T-33 was originally placed on a post before I was born! I didn't start flying them until nine months after it was refurbished and returned to its pedestal. Good grief.

Looks like another one bites the dust. This just in…

I’ll check with Dark Helmet and get back to you.

Big Macs in the cafeteria or big Max problems in the boardroom. Hellova choice.

Damn autocorrect. My spilling was purfect until that invention! Correction maid!

Their hourly rate reflects their duties when the wheels aren’t turning. If they want to be “paid” from the time they show up for work until they leave the office, their hourly rate would be reduced accordingly. In other words, as JO has explained, their overall pay would not change, it would just be calculated differently. What’s happening is that the FAs are wanting to keep their current hourly rate and apply it to time “working” outside the chock-to-chock time. Someone has convinced them that they aren’t being paid during that time and they are doing their best to convince those who don’t know better of the same.

1) I can’t remember working for an airline where pilots were permitted to open the doors unless we weren’t carrying FAs or in the event of an emergency. We always got annual training on the doors, but they were ALWAYS the purview of the FAs; 2) “seconds before takeoff”??? How melodramatic!

Yes, that’s really my point. I’m all for “fair compensation” (whatever that means! ), but the claim that we (they) aren’t compensated when the wheels aren’t turning is false and it preys on those who don’t know any better by setting the bar much higher than will be possible to achieve. Which might have something to do with the failure to ratify in the above mentioned case.

They do get paid for that time. Their hourly rate reflects the time outside of block time. If they want the clock to start/stop at check-in/check-out, the hourly rate will need to be reduced accordingly. I.E. no change in net pay, just in how it is accounted for. And if all that non-chock-to-chock time is factored in, it will make short-haul flying more lucrative than long-haul flying which might have some unintended consequences.

LOL. I will confess to being able to read maps and even remember how to do an aural null approach, BUT… The AUP I’m doing on my airplane includes three independent GPSs, including one that will allow me to do LPV approaches down to CAT I minimums. Plus additional portable GPSs in my iPhone and iPad; each using ForeFlight software for up-to-date maps, CFS, NOTAMs, weather, route briefings, traffic, etc. The basics are great (for those who know how to use them], but we’re well into the ‘90s now. Time to switch from analog to digital.

These days, “training” is pretty much optional for pilots going to the airlines.

Pilot to ATC: I found Dick Reid’s shoes!