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  1. Without "job security', your other goals are unreliable. As a pilot who has been furloughed twice, I put job security first.
    4 points
  2. Yeah, this is key. Everybody’s going to have to come to terms with the fact that we NEED new reactors. A lot of progress has been made over the past 40 years and it’s my understanding that smaller, regional level plants are probably the way to go. We should start a massive PR campaign to get people on board & start building the things ASAP. In related news, the French have apparently come to terms with the reality of Europe’s energy predicament and decided to re-start all of their reactors: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edf-restart-all-its-nuclear-reactors-by-this-winter-minister-says-2022-09-02/ Over/under on how long it takes them to start selling electricity to the Germans?
    4 points
  3. Watching Seattle politics on the homeless was insane. You have an entire spectrum of people who refuse to even acknowledge a connection between addiction and the homelessness up there, and some of them will consider it a form of bigotry to even suggest it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    3 points
  4. I’m still relatively new, so don’t claim to know that much, but I will say APC must be taken with a massive grain of salt. Many of the same individuals with non-stop doom and gloom messaging, how the company screws everybody, lots of 100% false info on there, etc. APC is not a great reflection of reality, and I think that applies to every airline out there. AA’s financials are not nearly as good as others, but I think we’ve seen the legacies really are too big to fail at this point. So, if living in DFW is what you want to do with life, then yeah, go for AA and don’t look back. For SWA, I’ve heard good things from friends there for the most part, but I personally didn’t want to be stuck in a 73 for my entire career flying to meh places. Variety over the course of a long career was worth something to me (and to many people); seniority is also a relatively slow progression there vs. others from what my friends say (friends came from SWA to DAL). There will always be good things about an airline and there will always be things to bitch about; there is not a perfect airline out there and APC is full of shit 99% of the time!
    3 points
  5. And the DNC fanboys on here will parse words and generate another excuse for "The Big Guy." We look like a banana republic.
    3 points
  6. When getting my type rating, our FAA examiner told us from his experience something to the effect of “all it takes is one big furlough to derail an otherwise good career progression at your airline”. YMMV, but that comment stuck with me. Sounds like Huggy/TreeA10 would agree to varying degrees based on their experiences. And I’m not insinuating that there’s gonna be a big furlough upcoming at any of the legacies…like most here I have a lot of friends at all of them, and for everyone’s sake I certainly hope each company can weather any storms they may have on the horizon. Of the 3 things listed in priority order (living in domicile, seniority progression, job security), I used to rank the companies I applied to in that exact order also. In the end I actually ended up turning down a job with an airline in domicile with great progression in favor of a different company that’s historically been a LOT more stable (but is still gonna have great seniority progression), even though I’m now gonna be a forever commuter. As they say, won’t know if that was the best choice until I retire. Unfortunately for 95% of us there isn’t an airline that perfectly checks all the squares in our order of preference.
    2 points
  7. Another angle of the rifle bullet impacting the Su-34
    2 points
  8. I like Gov Abbott’s gameplan applied to this problem; OK “homeless advocates” guess you guys are right, we’ll just make sure the homeless have comfortable places to set up surrounding your backyard and sidewalk out front. “BUT, BUT, NIMBY!!!!!!!” Hypocritical dumbasses, all of them.
    2 points
  9. This is all I can see: (for those not familiar with Top Gear. This is from BBC Top Gear)
    2 points
  10. Story from the Vietnam War by Soviet "advisers" (google translated).
    1 point
  11. Dude, do you even arithmetic? It’s obvious that all adds up to “ZERO”
    1 point
  12. So Finance took my retirement/sep package, signed off my outprocessing and issued my Terminal Leave #. Then did nothing. Literally... nothing. Just happened to find out that no record of my retirement existed in the finance system while inprocessing for a new GS gig I've started at the local base (thanks to a solid NCO at the desk I just happened to be chatting with). This was two days prior to my official separation date. Now trying to unfvck from my gmail address with my previous servicing finance office. Not fun. Had I not happened to find this out due to my new job I wonder how long I would have been waiting and wondering about my final pay and retirement pay starting. Anyway, don't trust the signed off checklist. Stay on these guys when you separate. zb
    1 point
  13. i made the exact same decision.
    1 point
  14. WTF is she talking about? TS//SAR was found on her server. That twitter statement is a 100% lie.
    1 point
  15. Been at AA going on 23 years and I'll say it is kind of a crap shoot. You only realize the validity of your decision when you retire. For instance, I was hired in early 99. Before me was the Air Cal and Trans Carib purchase. Reno happened just as I got hired. Then along came TWA and then US Air. TWA brought along the Ozark animosity toward seniority issues and US Airways brought the whole East vs America West seniority issues and then we wrapped all that up and dumped it into American Airlines. So, lots of pilots had lots of expectations that didn't quite work out as planned and lots of pilots are still pissed off because "they were cheated." I think I passed the 7000 mark on seniority list 3 times. We have pilots upgrading to Captain with seniority numbers 10,000+. Sounds good but you need to ask why do the more senior pilots not want the job? I'm a wide body FO with a 4200-ish number and have no desire to jump into that narrow body domestic mess plus I just got paid to sleep 7 hours on the jet plus had a nice seafood dinner in Madrid on my last trip. So, what kind of trips do you want to fly and what sort of upgrade opportunities will you have at your airline of choice? I'm based at DFW and it is a very senior base so it will take you longer to upgrade from narrow to wide body or FO to CA. Had a Miami based 10,000+ seniority number FO on his IOE on my last trip, also. (Just looked up FO seniority numbers for DFW and our junior wide body FO is actually @10,100.) Those opportunities come quicker if you are willing to commute. I commuted for 6 months when I first got hired and haven't done it since. However, I fly with a lot of commuters so it is doable.
    1 point
  16. I would ignore the crap on airlinepilotcentral. I stopped going there for gossip years ago for the same reasons brabus mentions. I would try and take the advice of previous posts and try to get with an airline that will likely have a hub near where you (wife) plans to make a long term domicile. And you are definitely advanced in your thinking if you are analyzing seniority progression and the relative age of the pilot group you want to join. Better progression is about as critical as your commutability/live in base decisions. Low morale is definitely in the eye of the beholder, and a few anecdotal posts on some crap gossip message board doesn't override the scores of AA friends and random AA pilots I have met along the way who say the opposite. Debt, especially corporate debt, is so grossly misunderstood by laymen like us that it is laughable. I could argue these two truths until I am blue in the face: 1) debt is bad and should be reduced 2) debt is good and airlines (and virtually all businesses and households) cannot function without it. Unless the company is really on the verge of bankruptcy, leave debt analysis to the overpaid executive types. I think most of the major airlines these days offer pretty much equal job security.
    1 point
  17. With reports of attacks and loss of control in the Crimea I think we are far closer to a doomsday (Tac Nuke), scenario. We are becoming ever more bold in providing help and equipment to the Ukrainians which has helped them build momentum. Putin needs an off ramp and his options are decreasing. While I am in favor of killing and crushing the Russian invaders it has become apparent the rank and file (mostly conscripts), of the Russian Army was unaware they were invading another country. The losses are staggering and the desperation in some of the intercepted phone calls and messages relates a generation of young Russian men being chewed up in a meat-grinder that has produced upwards of 80,000 casualties and a stalemate at best. In many cases numerous Russian units have become combat ineffective. Russian weapons inventory is low (over 50% of all attack missiles consumed, a similar story on artillery stocks), older equipment is being pressed into service and Putin has called for another round of conscription. The ending is not yet determined but it will not be pretty for either side. Ukrainian pensioner 'shoots down £74million Russian Su-34 jet with a RIFLE and is awarded a medal for his heroism'
    1 point
  18. So about that hypocrisy..... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/boom-federal-judge-tuesdays-decision-revealed-incumbent-president-joe-biden-ordered-fbi-access-mar-lago-documents-personal-belongings/
    1 point
  19. Maverick needs to steal their F-14 and bring it back home!
    1 point
  20. That's because it's not a homeless problem, it's a drug problem. There is a ton of money being spent on it, but it will do nothing because no one wants to admit that we need forcibly imprison the homeless and subject them to compulsory rehab, and reestablish the insane asylums for those who are too far gone to treat. We can work on that problem and support Ukraine at the same time.
    1 point
  21. https://www.cureus.com/articles/111851-regular-use-of-ivermectin-as-prophylaxis-for-covid-19-led-up-to-a-92-reduction-in-covid-19-mortality-rate-in-a-dose-response-manner-results-of-a-prospective-observational-study-of-a-strictly-controlled-population-of- Mooo - Ya'll.
    1 point
  22. To Nsplayr’s point, I volunteer with Young Eagles when I can; over the years I think I’m up to about 3 or 4 black kids who, when asked, “so what’d you think man, want to be a pilot now!?” responded with, “well I can’t be a pilot because I’m black.” Wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t been the one they were talking to. So why’d they answer that way? Well, the short of it is they’ve been fed a complete bullshit lie about life, this country, and the people in it. And unfortunately after a little more talking to them, my feeling has been they’ve received most/all of the bullshit POV from friends and relatives, NOT from the KKK guy down the street shouting slurs at them. The communities they live in are so uninformed/misinformed and continue to internally propagate completely false narratives against themselves. To that end, I completely support outreach/educational efforts in these communities - I want every minority kid to know they can be a pilot if they so choose, and at the end of their adolescence road, I have no problem if none of these kids are selected if they don’t make the bar, but if they do make the bar, then welcome on board and I’m glad to have you! Now, quotas and going for specific percentages - that’s bullshit and a complete miss. Targeted informational outreach and recruiting, but without any affirmative action bullshit, would be a good thing.
    1 point
  23. Just kind of the equivalent of a biological male or female saying that they are the opposite gender or no gender at all. Not triggered. Facts matter. And no matter how hard someone wants facts to be otherwise, they won’t change.
    1 point
  24. that's all well and good....IF people hadn't been forced to close their businesses, IF people hadn't been forced to take an experimental drug or get fired, IF kids hadn't (and in some states STILL) been forced to wear masks in schools, IF big tech hadn't censored only ONE side of the argument AT THE FUCKING DIRECTION OF THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AKA CDC hell NYC and LAX STILL "require" MASKS in the airport. thankfully people with a brain don't wear one. but hell man it's not fucking over. IF all those things hadn't happened i'd tend to agree with you...no problem. But all that shit did happen. and the decision makers were wrong. hundreds of thousands/millions of lives were fucked up. there needs to be accountability.
    1 point
  25. They won’t go home ever, don’t think I said that or didn’t mean to imply it, I think they’ll go tactically nuclear before they get kicked out of Ukraine I think recognition that they will keep about the amount of territory they have now is the reality the world should accept and move to a feasible plan to end the war, bring new Ukraine into the Western fold and subvert Putin with a free, reformed (long term project like South Korea) Ukraine Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    0 points
  26. Giving them some time to take back some territory / pressure the Russians is fine but there will come a point where I fear if the Russians really start to screw it up the temptation to go low yield tactical nuke becomes irresistible, the world gets really scary then. If they lose conventionally they lose deterrence against other foes they face, if the nuke first as they start to lose they end the conflict and they establish fear of nuclear reprisal with a recent example that assures them no one will f with them even though they lost a conventional conflict, yeah they’re a super pariah now but they have so much in natural resources it won’t last long term (isolation via extreme sanctions). If Russia gets territorial concessions and a land bridge to Crimea, then the West can beat that for the new Ukraine, basically a Marshall Plan plus immediate entry into the EU and NATO with US boots on the ground day 1 after conflict cessation Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    0 points
  27. I hate it but it's gotta end something like that.
    -1 points
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