BFM this

Flew with a senior CA who'd recently left the training dept after a couple decades to return to the line. He'd had a front row seat when single engine taxi was rolled out, long before my arrival on property. The pilot group, being the aforementioned Type-A widgets that we are, were on it like Khloe on the very last cupcake. That lasted, oh, about a fiscal quarter or two, until... Company financials were released, touting record setting executive bonuses. Same CKA, a few years later, sitting in another company meeting where a VP had data up on slides showing SET rates at all major carriers, of which we were distant last in the race. VP turns to the peanut gallery to ponder why our pilots were so far behind industry practices regarding SET. Of the dozen or so pilots lining the wall of the conference room...blank looks.

Thats enough internet for today I think.

What Haiti really needs is a politically connected benevolent charitable foundation to step up and help out.

If by immediately start working you mean line number at a legacy, this story will go legendary status.

Maybe. Way back in the Peace Dividend days, I showed up to my first Marine Squadron, and days after I arrived my roomies (maintainers) started pulling 12/6’s. Why were they doing 12/6’s, you ask? Well, it’s because when the Skipper said in a staff meeting that he wanted Mx on 12/7’s, someone slipped him a note that said can’t do that…

That's gotta be a leak of a draft that was never meant to see the light of day. "KC-135 units will coordinate to provide a conceptual means of air delivering 100 off-the-shelf size and type UAVs from a single aircraft." That right there was a spitball idea from the back of the peanut gallery, maybe got put up on the whiteboard for discussion purposes, but should have not made it onto paper. OTS UAV = no legs. Which means if delivered by air, is done OH or near the target, so...KC-135 means uncontested airspace, which flies in the face of the rest of the memo. ...Duffle Blog?

yootoob algorithms got me down some deeeep rabbit holes 🙄

Sukka Infatuated with Mediocre Pu$$y

In other news, flew with a CA yesterday that does interviews. That made for some fun cruise conversation. I finally had to stop the endless string of stories, many on par with GoT Red Wedding, of bad interviews of late. Asked: "Ok, are there any positive interviews you've had lately? Ones that give some hope for the incoming generation?" "Oh, yeah, mostly the .mil folks. Anyway, then there was the one with multiple DUIs, lost all their tickets, and then..." 🤯

At least they trenched the intended runway...

The Marines need something that no other service would touch with a ten foot pole and oven mitts. Thereby justifying their own air arm iaw the Key West agreement. The “austere” capability, Harrier popping up through the trees on a recruiting poster…it all looks good on paper, but ends up being a break-glass-in-case-of emergency type scenario.

Can't argue with this or other posted perspectives on Juan or Dan; to clarify I just assess Juan is the attention whore with better manners, for what thats worth. There are better alternatives, namely AVWEB and AOPA's Air Safety Foundation. Unfortunately they don't compete in precisely the same space, as their immediate incident reporting is much more succinct and limited to details released by official sources.

I'll try to dig it up. The gist was McSpadden had been the TClone/CC when the Mt. Home mishap occurred, therefore did not measure up to Gryder's standard as worthy of his position with ASF. All delivered in a breathless spittle laced diatribe, Nancy Grace style. Worst I can say about Juan is that he tries to collaborate with DG, but that's a common YooToober tactic, to collaborate and do crossover episodes within subject spaces to share viewership with other content producers. The rabbit holes that a google search will lead... https://www.ajc.com/news/local/delta-suspends-jailed-pilot/kNz1A9uDMWVK106R6xOPnL/ 🙄

I find Juan Brown's approach to be: -These are the known facts. -For the lay person, this is the definition of what those facts mean, in plain english -Tries to avoid speculation beyond historical trends. Dan Gryder just can't help but go balls deep within the first 30" of any video. He really lost me when he went after the AOPA Air Safety Institute director Richard McSpadden in a Nancy Grace style hit piece.

The protocols in hospitals, even before COVID, for wearing masks, when, what for, who's being protected, etc., has precisely ZERO resemblance to public masking. Public masking (any old piece of cloth strapped to the face) is not only ineffective, it is unhealthy for the wearer, and possibly for those who come in close contact.

Masks have become the progressives' MAGA hat.

Watched that and had an immediate "GODDAMNIT!" reaction. Then I reflected: there really wasn't a possible outcome where the root cause wasn't going to elicit anything other than that gut reaction. Perfectly flyable airplanes, on a great flying day, should have been on a walk-in-the-park plan. Nickel...

PF into LGA yesterday Figure I checked the NOT decidedly boring square for the next year at least.

It's a close race at the moment 🤘, but I think the airlines are leading; my particular outfit hasn't seen a raise since 1/1/2019. Zero, zip, nada.

Well...neither are any other employers within our career field, if we're being completely intellectually honest about it. In fact, I'm not sure any career other than finance or corporate senior execs are coming close, but I am standing by for correction.

Maybe. I'll be the first to agree that overconfidence, leading to operational hubris, could be crippling if allowed to fester unchecked. Trade show tech. That's what most of what you listed consists of. Trade show tech, without the logistics, training, and integration pieces, leads to a re-run of what history has shown several times, Desert Storm being the clearest example in the past century. Thing is, we don't put our starting lineup in trade shows. Hell, as has been stated in open source articles, we don't even train with it in the open atmosphere... fwiw, I think we left Taiwan to fend for itself back during the "Peace Dividend", we just don't openly state it.

All true, but you're mis-labeling APA as a union. There's always someone right around the corner ready to remind us that it's an "Association". Usually an APA lawyer, but I digress...

Ahhhh, yes. MMT. The gift that just keeps on giving.

Mall ninja