Cat Driver wrote:Speaking of flying skills Bacunayagua I read your posts here since you started and thought I would ask you if you ever got enough experience to get hired on a two crew airplane?
You wrote:
What options does a 1700 hour guy have over there?
No Turbine or two crew.
1700 TT
1550 PIC
650 MPIC
Why, are you guys hiring?
Spot on. These guys had ADF's, VOR's and Loran-C's. the real pilots were the ones long before that. Yet this group make themselves out to sound like their cojones won't fit in their pants'
It's simple fellas, no one is claiming you guy's aren't good pilots. But many of the industry practises from your times, were simply archaic or ignorant at best. I've read from one of you "old timers" about taking off with a DC-3 full of ice because you 'didn't think it was that much'. Which you then claimed to find out how dead wrong you were. The shitty SOP's you guys mock so much would have something to say about that.
I've even been in the presence of NWONT when he regaled a group of young pilots with tales of how he used to fly 185's full of passengers without seatbelt or seats and cram as many as he could in there. But hey, he got the job done right?
Like "digits_" and "goingnowhere" fast already mentioned, you guys have a lot of late friends that died or got seriously injured doing the exact same bullshit you guys did. Just because you are some of the ones that made it through, does not mean your way was better. Actually statistics prove your way was quantifiably worse. See thats the beauty about math, it doesn't lie, bitch all you want.
By the way, you old timers should read Fate is the Hunter if by any chance you guys haven't. He touches on the topic of luck/fate quite often.