TWA loses Thousands of hours of experience.

Grease Monkey · Post by **Grease Monkey** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:17 am

It's been a tuff year on TWA. Losing so many guys with high times and a wide range of experience. The Govn't along took 3 guys with over 25,000 hours behind them. They have had to replace these guys with much lowwer time less experienced guys. Hope this works out for them. They have already had a ton of accidents this year too. They could be looking at the same situation NCA fell into with insurance problems. You remaining guys might want to have a back up plan in your back pocket, ie. (get another job).Good luck boys.

fatso · Post by **fatso** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:01 am

What high timers have left for greener pastures

Dust Devil · Post by **Dust Devil** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:00 am

Awsome another TWA thread

snag · Post by **snag** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:35 am

The other day I saw no less than 5 TWA threads in a row. C'mon guys, is your life realy that borring out there? Who cares...Do we need to hear about every time you have a bowel movement within the company?

trouble · Post by **trouble** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:56 am

If you figure out the experience level of the TWA pilots that are around right now and averaged it out, you would be quite surprised and surely wouldn't want to be a passenger on board any of thier aircraft. At least if the current trend continues there would be a lot of wanna-be rampies getting into a seat. THEN WATCH OUT!

BlueSkies12 · Post by **BlueSkies12** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:06 pm

There's alot of movement in aviation nowadays. It's like that at every company. People are getting on at Air Canada and Jazz by the hundreds.

app flap · Post by **app flap** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:30 pm

sweet! so that means im next in line then!

AntiNakedMan · Post by **AntiNakedMan** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:15 pm

trouble wrote:If you figure out the experience level of the TWA pilots that are around right now and averaged it out, you would be quite surprised and surely wouldn't want to be a passenger on board any of thier aircraft. At least if the current trend continues there would be a lot of wanna-be rampies getting into a seat. THEN WATCH OUT!

funny, so all of a sudden anyone with less than x-number of hours is fated to crash? last time I heard, maintenance issues that could cause serious problems don't bother to check the pilot's logbook before happening....

If low time drivers are so damn dangerous, why are there any high time drivers around?

fatso · Post by **fatso** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:15 am

With all the low timers flying for t.w,and all the old dogs gone,watch out because there will be more accidents.Hope the more senior pilots will take them under there wings and give them some guidence,Glass and JR sure won't.

HO Driver · Post by **HO Driver** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:37 am

What, like teaching the newbies how to .. run in a Ho from ZWL to YNL when the WX is 200 & 1? Hey maybe TWA needs a new crop of guys that don't have bad habits. I'm pretty sure TWA's KA100 has sand blasted every plane in Sask that does mine work.
Putting rampies in the planes can't be that bad.

trouble · Post by **trouble** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:51 am

TWA's fate is in the hands of newbees.

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grover · Post by **grover** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:04 am

real tactful...very classy...

Raybanman · Post by **Raybanman** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:23 am

[quote="trouble"]TWA's fate is in the hands of newbees.

If you wanted to bash TW, then you could at least have put in a little more effort and found a pic of a navajo crash or something they actually fly... Why aren't you loading that frieght? Isn't the sched coming in soon? Get back to work.

Cheers,
PP

goldeneagle · Post by **goldeneagle** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:50 am

I keep seeing this TWA stuff coming up, somebody just wont let it go for some reason. Makes me wonder.

Who is TWA ? Why does it matter? Will the world come to and end if TWA hires a few low-timers ? Why would anybody care if a few TWA drivers move up to bigger companies and bigger airplanes ?

The only reason i can see why anybody would want to constantly try paint this 'TWA is scary' picture is because there's a competitor sitting in the wings, on the verge of bankruptcy, and they cant survive in the market because TWA is killing them.

Whoever you are, give it a rest. The real TWA is well documented in the history of aviation, over with Pan-Am. Former giants, now defunct. If there's a little operator up north that's picked up the moniker, the only folks that care are pilots looking for work. To them, news that TWA is losing pilots is GOOD NEWS. For most of the readers here, news of more upward mobility within the industry is definitely good news. We wish the best to thier new hires, especially if they turn out to be low timers getting that first 'big break' thats going to put the required numbers into the correct logbook columns.

Pretty much everybody here has been a low-timer at one time or another, lots of them fit that description today. As much as you want to paint a bad/scary picture about it, hiring of low timers is welcome news, the thing many folks want to hear about. There is nothing scary about it, except maybe the insurance premiums that go along with the practise.

Congratulations extended to those leaving to move up, and more congratulations extended to those filling the void created. Now for the one that keeps trying to stir the shit with this endless drivel here, please piss off and go bitch somewhere else, we've heard enough, and are sick of it.

flyinthebug · Post by **flyinthebug** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:57 pm

VERY well said Goldeneagle.
Fly safe cheers!

trouble · Post by **trouble** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:09 pm

I see flyinthebug found another place to stick his head.

flyinthebug · Post by **flyinthebug** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:09 pm

trouble your wit leaves me speechless.

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