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  1. pilotyip

    P-3 Water injection

    Coming out of Sangley Point for an alert launch to cover Yankee Station, 1969, P-3A BuNo 151363, T-56-10W's, Actual TOW round 132,000, this is on an airframe with a published MGTOW of 127,500. Wing stores you know, paraflares on four stations, full fuel, “C” ASW load just in case we found a sub...
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    $100,000 first year pay

    We are offering $100,000 first year pay to those who meet the 121 PIC requirements of 121.436.
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    ABX Goes on Strike

    Heard this morning that the ABX pilots walked on the job. The Atlas, Kalitta, and Polar pilots are honoring the pickets lines. This puts a big bind on Amazon as the peak shipping season arrives. There is no spare lift at UPS or FedEx, both of them are running close to last year's peak right now.
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    Kalitta Air TA

    Looks like KA pilots are going to get a 90% pay raise. Good on them. A lot of friends working there. It is amassing what a pilot shortage will do to managements thought process. Now if K-1 and K-2 would get their stuff together.
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    Student Solo at YIP and FAA man shows up

    Saturday morning was a nice morning for flying, so I turn my student loose in the pattern for his first solo three T/O and landings. He taxis back to the hangar and then up pulls a man wearing a FAA badge. I go oh oh! thinking of all things I have done wrong in my flying career and I...
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    Company refuses to reconize employees right to organize

    Some news is an obligation to report, but sometimes it?s a real pleasure. The latter is the Service Employees International Union?s use of the McDonald?s defense to oppose unionizing its own workers. The SEIU has hired workers across the country to protest outside businesses and restaurants...
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    A college degree becomes more useless

    A faculty committee has proposed adding a three credit hours requirement in diversity to the general education curriculum at Wayne State University. It also recommended that WSU drop its university-wide requirement in mathematics, an idea that was carried out on June 13. We are proposing the...
  9. pilotyip

    Fun Flying Job

    On the airshow schedule this weekend, sitting chatting with another pilot. He flies for a night time cargo outfit. Retired from the Major Corp world job at age 65, but still likes flying, does not need a job. He works as a system floater for the company goes where they need a pilot. When...
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    Single pilot L-188 Cargo flight

    1979 flying as F/O on the Electra for TransAmerican Airlines hauling Emery Air Freight coming out of CLT about 0400. Captain is a WWII B-24 pilot, who loves watching the ponies run around a race track. On my leg, CLT-MIA, coming out of 1,000' we clean up and the Captain says to me "You flew...
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    How I became a Lear Jet co-pilot

    1978 Willow Run Lear story. I am working for TransAmerican Airlines; I am standing reserve at my base KYIP. Reserve call out by our ALPA contract was by phone between noon and 1600. If you didn't get a call, you were relieved until the next day. However, if you answered the phone, they could tag...
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    Sleeping in the cockpit

    In the late 80's the NTSB did a study of sleep in the cockpit, looking at instances of ?Micro Napping?. This where you have no control over falling asleep and blacking out due to being fatigued. . What they found was at int'l carriers where controlled napping was allowed in cruise, there were...
  14. pilotyip

    Women may have to register for the draft

    Women will eventually have to register for the draft if "true and pure equality" is to be realized in the U.S. military, Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday. "If your objective is true and pure equality then you have to look at all aspects" of the roles of women in the military, McHugh...
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    Growing Pilot Shortage

    One of our pilots related this story. While getting his medical, he is talking to another pilot who is there getting a 1st Class medical. The guy is 63 years old, last week he applied at Skywest. He interviewed two days later and starts on Monday as a CRJ F/O. He was leaving the...
  16. pilotyip

    EAL back in business

    Eastern Air Lines Group, Inc. - Certficate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Foreign Passenger Charters - Issued April 28, 2015 | Served May 18, 2015 Order 2015-5-11 OST-2014-0013 - Certficate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Foreign Passenger Charters Issued April 28, 2015 | Served...
  17. pilotyip

    FAA worried about somatogravic illusion

    New Info guidence
  19. pilotyip

    Right to Work anyone?

    Gov. Rick Snyder: Michigan leads the Midwest in creating private sector jobs since end of 2010 Unemployment rate drops to 5.9 percent, lowest in 14 years LANSING, Mich. ? Michigan has gained more private sector jobs than any other Midwestern state since the end of 2010, and the state?s...
  20. pilotyip

    WWII Trivia

    Which month in WWII has the biggest draft call up number? Just finished a new book on George Marshall Army COS in WWII. It was June of 1945, 440,00 due to the manpower shortage for the invasion of Japan. This is kind of surprising since Germany had already been defeated. But this helps...
  21. pilotyip

    USA Jet DA-20 F/O starting Pay $52,000

    In an attempt to attract more pilots the company has elected to throw more money at our recruiting efforts. For ATP qualified pilots, (means hours plus ATP written) assigned to the Falcon or DC-9 as First officers will start at $42,713 plus $170 per trip mission pay. The value of this is...
  22. pilotyip

    Go for a B-17 ride at KYIP

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rkfBZgPnQI&feature=youtu.be neat video
  23. pilotyip

    College does not necessarily lead to a job

    An article in the WSJ from Express Employment Services, the 5th largest employment agency in the country. "Another big hurdle is the widening skills deficit. At any given time, Mr. Funk says, Express has as many as 20,000 jobs the company can't fill because workers don't have the skills...
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