SocialD Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 13 minutes ago, so.it.goes said: You, my friend, must have the most hard-working and efficient support personnel in the entire Guard... I have never had that experience in ANY of my in/out-processing situations. ...except, I suppose, the one time I (literally) said, "F**k it, you figure it out", left the paperwork at home station, and went to school with no issues. Maybe I got lucky, or maybe none of that shit matters anyway. Ha, I wish. While we have some phenomenal people working in our FSS, they still can be a royal PITA. I walked in one day to get my CAC renewed and there was no-one to be seen. Wandered around, found the FSS Chief. She investigated and it turns out everyone was on leave to drop their kids off at a state military kids camp...the one remaining guy got sent out that am on an emergency TDY (for personnel lol). The chief was as dumbfounded as I was and lost her shit. I could also write a book on just our finance shop. I just prescribe to the line of thinking in your second paragraph. If you do those few items I mentioned, everything else will work itself out. I remember when I left Luke, they wanted me to log into some online program and out-process using some ridiculously long, drawn out checklist, which involved stopping at the library (I didn't even know they had a library) for a signature, as well as the chaplin or something. Fuck that, I grabbed my AFE gear, my flight records and medical records then jumped in the car and started my drive home. I never heard a word about it, so clearly it didn't matter. A helpful tactic is to walk into a shop and tell them you have to be out the door at X time for an appointment (works on car salesman as well). If it can't be finished by that time, just send the rest to my email and I'll get it back to you when I come back to work.
Gazmo Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 yeah understood, "tragedy of the commons" behavior abounds. To each their own.I get the attractiveness of a 20 yr AD retirement check, but Jesus... it'd take an economic disaster/furlough for me to take long term mil leave and go back to the unit on orders. Sorry, I like working 1 2
Gazmo Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 I get the attractiveness of a 20 yr AD retirement check, but Jesus... it'd take an economic disaster/furlough for me to take long term mil leave and go back to the unit on orders. Sorry, I like working Hmmm... my post looks cut off. Is everyone else seeing it end abruptly at "like working"?
Gazmo Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 Yes, it ends abruptly. Interesting. May be a Tapatalk thing, but everytime I post, it cuts me off half way through. I am starting to think my wife runs this forum... 4 2
hindsight2020 Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 The irony of your post ending in "I like working" in a thread about scoffing at airline work via MLOA, is must definitively not lost on me. Freudian slip if there ever was one, even if "tapatalk did it". 😄😉 1
SocialD Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 (edited) 22 minutes ago, hindsight2020 said: The irony of your post ending in "I like working" in a thread about scoffing at airline work via MLOA, is must definitively not lost on me. Freudian slip if there ever was one, even if "tapatalk did it". 😄😉 I don't think Gazmo is a long term mloa type of guy. Maybe he was saying that he liked working a total of 4 days this month for 88 hours of pay as a line holder, like I'm doing this month 🤣. Edited August 9, 2019 by SocialD 3
Gazmo Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 I don't think Gazmo is a long term mloa type of guy. Maybe he was saying that he liked working a total of 4 days this month for 88 hours of pay as a line holder, like I'm doing this month . Yes... that is what I was trying to say and it cut off half my post bragging that I have only worked 6 days in the last 30 with 3 nights away from home (and some of those days I was home by lunch time). I think it is a government conspiracy! No - definitely not a long term MLOA type of guy here. I barely remember how to set my alarm anymore. I love it though when my unit tries to sell a temp AGR tour with, "Hey, if you ever want a break from the airline life, we can get you some orders!". YGTBSM. Yes, please give me back those computer screen migrain headaches I got rid of. Oh and those meetings. I love meetings!!! Send me to lots of worthless meetings so I can't get $hit done all day. One last thing; start lots of fires for me to put out before I get there because I miss those also! 22 days per month too! The toughest decision I have now after getting to "work" and going through the KCM is - mocha latte or Jamba Juice? 3
SurelySerious Posted August 9, 2019 Posted August 9, 2019 25 minutes ago, Gazmo said: The toughest decision I have now after getting to "work" and going through the KCM is - mocha latte or Jamba Juice? I think you’ve forgotten an important possibility there. 1
Stoker Posted September 19, 2019 Posted September 19, 2019 For purposes of ATP mins and airline hiring, how should sim time (in a level D) be logged? I'm hearing/reading various guidance, from logging it as sim time only, to logging it as total time, sim time, instrument time, PIC or SIC, all at once. I don't want to overreach and get my hand slapped when I'm going for an ATP or applying, but I also don't want to cut myself out of 80+ hours of usable time.
herkbier Posted September 19, 2019 Posted September 19, 2019 It’s sim time only. Also, 80 hours isn’t going to be a deal breaker for a mil guy. I’m a child of sequestration.. 1/10 of my total flight time is Other time.. counts for zero.
Stoker Posted September 19, 2019 Posted September 19, 2019 11 minutes ago, herkbier said: It’s sim time only. Also, 80 hours isn’t going to be a deal breaker for a mil guy. I’m a child of sequestration.. 1/10 of my total flight time is Other time.. counts for zero. I'm a reservist off the street with no real prior flight time to speak of, so I'm trying to set myself up in case whatever full-time status I am on fall through. I'd rather have an R-ATP in my back pocket in case Sequestration Part II occurs.
ThreeHoler Posted September 19, 2019 Posted September 19, 2019 For purposes of ATP mins and airline hiring, how should sim time (in a level D) be logged? I'm hearing/reading various guidance, from logging it as sim time only, to logging it as total time, sim time, instrument time, PIC or SIC, all at once. I don't want to overreach and get my hand slapped when I'm going for an ATP or applying, but I also don't want to cut myself out of 80+ hours of usable time.It has to be an FAA-certified sim...not just the AF “level D”.
HossHarris Posted September 19, 2019 Posted September 19, 2019 5 hours ago, ThreeHoler said: It has to be an FAA-certified sim...not just the AF “level D”. If it doesn’t have an FAA blessing you get nothing for a logbook. It’s effectively a toy
BroncoEN Posted September 23, 2019 Posted September 23, 2019 On 9/19/2019 at 10:31 AM, HossHarris said: If it doesn’t have an FAA blessing you get nothing for a logbook. It’s effectively a toy Checks. To my knowledge the only military folks that use FAA certified class D sims are your C37, C32, C40 folks.
brickhistory Posted September 26, 2019 Posted September 26, 2019 Not one, never gonna be one, but curious question: Billy Bob is hired by airline X. Who/how decides what his/her original equipment/domicile will be? I understand that both equipment/seat/domicile can change, but who/how is the initial one set? Not asking for a friend, just mildly curious.
SocialD Posted September 26, 2019 Posted September 26, 2019 1 hour ago, brickhistory said: Not one, never gonna be one, but curious question: Billy Bob is hired by airline X. Who/how decides what his/her original equipment/domicile will be? I understand that both equipment/seat/domicile can change, but who/how is the initial one set? Not asking for a friend, just mildly curious. Crew Resources decides where pilots are needed based on a myriad of reasons (marketing/fleeting/etc...). Every so often the airline will have a bid for guys to move aircraft. Anything that isn't bid by current pilots is left over and then can be offered to new hire classes. After that, it's probably dolled out to newhire classes based mostly on sim availability. Within the class, you get to pick based on class seniority which is decided differently at every airline. At AAL it was based on age. At DAL it was based on your last four...the higher the number, the better.
nunya Posted September 28, 2019 Posted September 28, 2019 FedEx gives some weight to past aircraft experience. Dunno the details about how that plays out.
Scooter14 Posted October 1, 2019 Posted October 1, 2019 JetBlue is age based, oldest to youngest, on the night before your first day of Indoc.
JS Posted October 4, 2019 Posted October 4, 2019 Hey, does anyone have any insight on traveling to Russia/China while on airline duty and also holding a U.S. clearance? Seems we would not be able to travel to those places on our own vacation, so flying there on an assigned trip with the airline would generate the same paperwork/clearance suspicions as a vacation visit, right? Is there a process, or do guys just refuse to fly there with the airline? New to international. Thanks.
SocialD Posted October 4, 2019 Posted October 4, 2019 Nah, you just let your security peeps know all the countries you fly to and roll with your assigned trips. Not a big deal.
JS Posted October 4, 2019 Posted October 4, 2019 Along those lines, is there some kind of published list of do no go countries for U.S. military? A friend keeps telling me how great Ukraine is and how much they love American's. Great exchange rate too apparently.
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