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Anyone know anything about the Pacific
With the captain thing, in my previous job, I had a crew on my 210 survey aircraft, and I had to fill out a daily flight sheet which required the "Captain" to put their name on it. I now fly for a different company but in the same aircraft type with no crew, does that mean i'm not the "Captain" anymore? If so...who is?
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It's a cruel world sometimes isn't it 69?
I see my old jousting partner remoak has gone a bit quiet up the back of that crew bus, perhaps common sense finally prevailed.
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I see my old jousting partner remoak has gone a bit quiet up the back of that crew bus, perhaps common sense finally prevailed.
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You could always come over to Bankstown, in Sydney, hire a twin and fly XXX's prop down to him in Melbourne...that would get you some twin time and I'm sure XXX would appreciate it...
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I see my old jousting partner remoak has gone a bit quiet
It's very simple. The good ole dictionary defines what a captain is. Being a captain is contingent on having a crew to command. If you don't have a crew, you aren't a captain, just a pilot. This is all a simple matter of definition.
The only people who want to be called captains, whilst not actually having anyone to command, are those with giant egos and a desire for self-glorification. The technical term for this is "w@nker".
Now I know that you poor old Ozmates have to endure many years of banging around in crappy old singles and twins in order to earn your spurs, and I know that you get impatient for the glory of being able to wear your freshly-shined four bars and tell your crew what to do. I realise that you practise by pretending to be captains when you are really just pilots, and that doing so helps you to pick up girls and/or boys in shopping malls. I really do get it....
What amuses me even more is when you try and justify it by saying that some form or other, probably written to serve a two-crew operation and adapted for single pilot use, mentions the word "captain", which you automatically assume confers some status or other.
All this was a bit of a mystery to me, until I realised - of course! - that I am dealing with Australians. NOW it makes sense. The ego, the arrogance, the love of strange beers so bad that they don't even have names, just a bunch of x's. Of course. How blind I was.
Well, you just carry on pretending you are captains if it makes you feel better. Those of us who really are captains know differently.
I am off down to the aero club now. I'm taking a mate, so just to avoid confusion I'm wearing my four gold bars (and my special gold wings), and I'm going to insist that the girl behind the desk calls me captain. The instructors can call me "captain SIR", as befits their station in life...
If it gives you any comfort, Kiwis are just as bad at pretending to be important. Now that's a harsh look in the mirror, to be sure. Fortunately, our Air Force, which once used to have actual aircraft, have managed to see the reality and produced this nifty instructional video for all those who want to pretend to be more important than they really are...
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That video is a classic.
Just a shame it's the usual suspects hijacking a thread to increase their thread count....
......or ego's
too much time..
too much
Just a shame it's the usual suspects hijacking a thread to increase their thread count....
......or ego's
too much time..
too much
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I didn't think you'd post anything less!
P.S If you think us Aussies (Kiwis, well I can understand
) are so bad, why do you continue to jaunt our little corner?
Ahhh I know why, the poms are a strange bunch!
P.S If you think us Aussies (Kiwis, well I can understand
) are so bad, why do you continue to jaunt our little corner?Ahhh I know why, the poms are a strange bunch!
Last edited by The Green Goblin; 8th Oct 2010 at 01:04.
Iarepilot - GA Operators based in Darwin tend to have singles and twins. With your hours on singles, applying for a start with one of these operators on singles would be your best bet for getting light twin time as people move on. Darwin is quite livable if you've been in Africa but also very expensive for accommodation at the moment (it wasn't when I was there 9~10 years ago). Cairns also has some operators in that catagory as well but often send new employees up to Horn Island (the Rock) at the tip of Cape York.
mattyj - speaking from personal experience are we??
mattyj - speaking from personal experience are we??
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why do you continue to jaunt our little corner?
Plus I'm a Kiwi... even live there. Now how weird is that! Not a pom though, that would be almost as bad as being an Aussie...
