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All in good fun...former WB FO here. Easy to have skills atrophy when all you do is ocean crossing to an ILS.

This is what happens when WB pilots do anything other than a straight in ILS.

Did it go missing or did it just drop of as a FR24 track as it descended into AUAB? I could be wrong, but this seems like a headline to get some clicks!

Agreed on the type thing, they're going to have to put you through training either way, I don't see having a type as much of a help. As far as the degree thing, that may be a thing at Giant, but a degree is still very much a strong delineator at my air line. I can only recall flying with one guy who didn't have a degree and he was a flow. It would be interesting to see how many were hired without degrees though. Besides a the Guard babies, most pilots will have the airline mins after a 10 year commitment. Doubtful that this type of flying would make much of a difference.

In a way, the AD is already doing that by sending first assignment guys to ANG squadrons. 😁

Ya, you'll have to excuse my cynicism, it just gets worse the further out of service I get and the more I read about our leaders, past and present.

If that airline tries to make a good (in their view) business decision and merge, but the government disallows that merger due to "competition issues," which forces them to die, how is that fair? If you're going to play the fairness game, they should have stayed out of the merger and then I'd 100% agree with you. Also remember that some of their woes are due to getting planes that are unusable because of engine manufacturer defects.

The same government stopped it from merging with another airline because less competition is bad... So now they let them go under leaving one less competitor....yay competition!

Lol, so they're not even driving down the OPSEC path, just the, he could have slipped the word out before we officially made the announcement. If there is one thing those in power hate, it's stolen thunder. What's funny is those in leadership/government are probably going to try to rail against this guy because of "ethics." 🤣

If only we had the same zeal in going after military officers in positions to influence contracts that magically end up in high paying gigs at these defense contractors after retirement.

What did I miss? Did something changed?

Hey Boss, I was just getting some hover and terrain masking practice in. I was just as surprised as WO2 Bagonuts to see some redneck standing there giving me a salute.

Talking with a controller friend, it's not all that uncommon for that time of night. Technically two controllers "on duty," with one off status resting while one controls the entire show. I know I've been at the busy early morning push in EWR and we couldn't raise anyone on clearance for a full route clearance. Jumped over the ground and the controller apologized, "I'm the only one here right now." Dude was reading full route clearance after full route clearance, then asking guys to read back only their squawk, because he was busy issuing taxi clearances. I assume he was issuing T/O and LND clearances as well, but I wasn't on that freq. Our controller staffing hasn't recovered from the hiring freeze during rona, among other reasons... I still have no idea why they won't accept military controllers who over >30, seems like they're leaving out some qualified candidates. Relatively small pool, but seems like a terrible policy with the current shortages.

Lots of guys asking questions about short notice non-vol orders on the Delta Mil FB page over the last week or so.

These coasties showed up lol.