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A shame Ray was not on board with his film technology. The mystery craft would be identified.....
 
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Leonidas Get together. AZ Dry heat causes issues....
 
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Leonidas Get together. AZ Dry heat causes issues....

Heat? Hmm....Perhaps, but I'd always assumed any/all "Army" of Leonidas meetings and "thinking" must've been the direct result of a presumed abundance of locally available peyote instead. 😉

Oh well, it's of no matter anymore.

P.S. My personal philosophy is to treat all sharing the cockpit with courtesy and respect whatever their background. Having said that; No/zip/ZERO infantile "games" from any will be tolerated, nor should they ever be by ANYONE in our business....period.
 
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Who's ready for some wild and crazy fun? Well, so am I.

Here's a spontaneous, fun birthday tribute to everyone's favorite attention starved Captain. Zany hijinks are such a cool part of that kooky, fun Phoenix culture. What a gas.

 
Looks like an overflow crowd for Cap'n Aux's eagerly awaited speech at the annual cruise for devotees of the sparsely read webzine, "Airways Magazine." 🙂

The nerdy fraternity of avgeeks appeared spellbound as "kid by choice" Aux described his days of glory performing the "most hazardous job in aviation."

Suitably warmed up, the aviation enthusiasts later adjourned to the Lido Deck bar, where Isaac stood ready with his latest libations. No doubt some serious damage was done to the nubile young coeds and prowling cougars at the disco that night.

Sometimes I just feel proud to be associated with aviation people.

 
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Who's ready for some wild and crazy fun? Well, so am I.

Here's a spontaneous, fun birthday tribute to everyone's favorite attention starved Captain. Zany hijinks are such a cool part of that kooky, fun Phoenix culture. What a gas.



Aux is now a paunchy parody of his not so long ago caricatures.......
 
Ray Ray has been trolling for sympathy from his close, personal Facebook "friends." Right on cue, they've been giving "shout outs" 😀 to "my brutha." It's all quite pitiful.

Among those decrying the "haters" is Mrs. Jurkov, whose husband is the most loathsome creep ever to post on this board. While Johnny thoroughly enjoyed making sport of fatal accidents, Ray always remained mute on the lowlife. Not a peep out of him, even as Dave Blomgren was correctly pointing out that Johnny's nasty posts were greatly helping USAPA's recruiting efforts (We made sure of that! 🙂).

Another member of Ray's pity party is Airbus technical expert Duane Giroir, who's criminal record far exceeds that which cost NFL star Ray Rice his career. Ray has no apparent problem with this, preferring to focus on the mean Eastie "haters."

What a guy.
 
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Cap'n Aux jumped in to tell Ray Ray that this board is a waste of time and he never comes here.

Typical Cap'n Aux tripe put out for public consumption. We know that he still lurks here regularly.

Can't tell you how we know, but we know. 😉
 
Douc*e alert! Ray, who calls himself "Pitbull", loves him some pitbulls. He's a longtime proud owner of this breed, which was in fact bred for one thing.

Unlike the 99% of responsible citizens who feel ill reading the weekly story of one of these vile creatures tearing the face off some neighborhood 5 year old, Ray just knows that these dogs are cuddly furballs.

Did I mention that he also thinks highly of Johnny Jurkov and Duane Giroir?
 
Looks like an overflow crowd for Cap'n Aux's eagerly awaited speech at the annual cruise for devotees of the sparsely read webzine, "Airways Magazine." 🙂

The nerdy fraternity of avgeeks appeared spellbound as "kid by choice" Aux described his days of glory performing the "most hazardous job in aviation."

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Anyone so truly pitiful as to need to self-style "him"self as a supposed "cap'n" based purely upon some corporate costume, not to mention fantasizing that he's done the "most hazardous job in aviation" must necessarily be properly seen as a pathetic joke and both mental and spiritual cripple. The saddest part for that "kid by choice"/perpetual infant is that he's no apparent idea of even that much being true. I honestly feel sorry for that poor "kid by choice", especially given that life as even at least some slight semblance of an adult offers so much more.
 
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American pilots should have been stapled to the bottom of the list..........




American Airlines Pilots' Seniority Suit Dismissed

By Emma Cueto

Law360, New York (June 27, 2017, 6:31 PM EDT) -- A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday threw out a proposed class action by a group of American Airlines Inc. pilots contesting the seniority agreement reached after the company’s merger with US Airways, ruling the agreement was not arbitrary, discriminatory or reached in bad faith.

The pilots were dissatisfied with the seniority agreement negotiated by their union, the Allied Pilots Association, following the merger and aimed to represent up to 10,000 employees, but U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone rejected their arguments that the union mishandled the negotiations...
 
The LAA and PHX LUS pilots lowered the pay bar for the industry. Doug Parker had to intervene in the substandard contract those pilots voted for themselves. Doug actually had to give an 8% raise as new hires regularly left AA for other carriers as the offers came in. APA was powerless.
Former east genius negotiators Gerry McGuckin and Mike Tosi helped mgt.pave the way for a decade of low wages and givebacks. An entire generation of young people subsequently stopped taking flying lessons.
Gerry Glass, Steve Wolf and Doug Parker jumped on the bandwagon.
Nice job men, now there are not enough pilots to fly your jets.
More raises to come Doug.
 
Horizon Air — the regional airline that is part of Alaska Air Group, carrying passengers on shorter flights throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond — is cutting its flight schedule this summer because of a severe shortage of pilots for its Q400 turboprop planes.

The shortage became a crisis this past month when Horizon was forced to cancel more than 318 flights because it didn’t have enough pilots to fly all its planes.


In response, the airline is now pre-emptively canceling flights later in the summer and is weighing if it needs to pare its schedules for the rest of the year.

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Examples where one flight will be canceled on each of these routes:

Seattle and Boise: Now with 8 daily flights

Seattle and Spokane: Now with 15 daily flights

Seattle and Portland: Now with 26 daily flights

Redmond and Portland: Now with 5 daily flights

Portland and Sacramento, Calif.: Now with 3 or 4 daily flights


In an effort to reduce cancellations, it’s also sending out managers who are qualified pilots to fly the planes and offering double pay to pilots who fly extra flights.

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On Thursday, Horizon Chief Executive Dave Campbell sent a memo to employees announcing that the airline is cutting multiple flights in August and is studying its fall and winter timetables “to ensure we have schedules that we can reliably operate.”

Campbell wrote that the pilot shortage, coupled with the airline’s unprecedented growth
 
Think the FAA raising the flight hour requirements (250 to 1500) to qualify for a commercial pilots license might have something to do with that?

What they managed to do is cut new pilots out and benefit the ones already in the system.
 
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