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I've got a couple hundred hours in them. They drink fuel, I don't remember the exact burns but it was a lot. Ours were beat to hell freighters, but they flew fine. If you could get it in the door, they'd haul it. Even at high density altitudes, it was never an issue. They were built to haul...

Pilot's riding in the flight deck are not on company business (well, they better not be, as it's frowned upon).

Presumably, this is for their EAS routes. Just because they have the 135 approved, they'd still have to get awarded EAS contracts, which it seems like most places they proposed using this 135 option, the locals went a different direction with the contracts.

Exactly. Even being in the regional game, things are moving and happening so fast, it's hard to see where this business (the regional one) will be in 12 months from now. I'm sure at some point my shop will have to respond, but it'll have to come from the boys down in Dixie. And they are never...

Sure, but you can also get an R-ATP at 1500 without the X/C time needed...

Exactly, even most regionals have abandoned the outstation basing model, it just doesn't work out.

~2000, mostly LTA time at that point.

The biggest issue, IMO, is the hours from a wet commercial to ATP qualifying mins. I learned a lot flying 135 single pilot before jumping into the 121 world. These new kids just check the box riding around as a CFI in a 172, and then get to fly a jet. They don't develop any real airmanship skill...

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I had ~650 hours of airplane time when I got released to single pilot line ops in a 1900. You never know what is actually possible.

If he's acting as an SIC within the US only, outside of a 121 operation, he wouldn't need to be type rated.

Really? The typical departure point for 9L is 9L at M2, allowing them to use the full length of 9L at L to cross planes who have landed on 9R/10

They had no reason to slow down until they saw something on the tracks ahead of them, at which point it's far to late to stop prior to impact.

When the weather gets below 1/2sm and 200 OVC, with any 5G transmitters around, absolutely.

It also happens the other way around when it's crap out. Conversation usually ends with the tower asking "well, what do you need to get in", and generally is followed by the visibility being exactly that...

For an easy drive, I wouldn't even worry about it. I had well over 3k lbs of stone in the back of an 2005 F150 once. It wasn't pleasant, and I wouldn't do it all the time, as the truck was basically on the bump stops. But it worked.

I wouldn't have a care in the world about a DC-9 type airplane on 6000 ft. There is no such thing as an MD-80, that's the series marketing name. There is an MD-81/82/83/87/88. Technically, they're DC-9-81/82...

IIRC, United did. I don't think they do any more, I think it ended at the beginning of 2021.

Not only that, you've got mainline pilots lecturing about how the industry is (specifically the regional world) when they haven't worked at a regional in 15+ years... Now that said, has the ATP law made flying safer, I don't think you can prove it one way or another. 117 on the other hand...

Humvee's being street legal depends on the state you live in, for what it's worth. Or rather, where the vehicle is titled.