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frfly172

frfly172

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Sitting at Boston Logan waiting for my flight to Tampa to pick up my airplane. Just saw the co pilot for my flight,both my kids are older than him. He doesn’t appear to have a care in the world.
 
Did you eat at Legal Seafood?*


*I know someone will be along shortly and tell me that Legal Seafood sucks but for this Arizona guy, it was really good.
 
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Legal Seafood is a good option for KBOS restaurants. And if you're a member, the Admirals Club does a surprisingly good Lobster Roll.
 
I while back I had an FO that was very young looking, he was always taking crap from mechanics about looking too young to fly. I was a very young looking Marine Corps pilot many years ago and recall the same comment from a Navy Chief, my response "I'm old enough for you to salute an officer."

Just because someone looks young doesn't mean they aren't highly qualified to perform their job.
 
OP's profile says he is 71, I would think most pilots (particularly at a regional) are younger than his kids.

BTW how does someone have 11,879 posts and I don't remember them? Maybe all of them were equally pointless.
 
dmspilot said:
BTW how does someone have 11,879 posts and I don't remember them?
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Alzheimer's?

I have 4800 posts and honestly can't say I remember all of them.

[Some notable one's, I remember like I was banned yesterday :)]
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
Its probably time to stop evaluating people by how they look, and concentrate on what they do, say, represent, who they associate with.
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Agree. I hate threads like these that make stupid generalizations.
 
aaawww, the kids are getting butthurt. OP didn't even say anything out of line, but I guess today everything is offensive to everyone. and especially since "most" kids are just sooooo mature. anyways, this kid's a pilot, so prob should give him some amount of respect, I reckon.
 
There was a time that I was the 'young kid' during my various stages of employment.

Not anymore, dammit. :)
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
Its probably time to stop evaluating people by how they look, and concentrate on what they do, say, represent, who they associate with.
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My phrase on hiring decisions is: I don’t care what they look like or their plumbing arrangement, can they do the job and will they do they job?
 
I think we should stop letting these young kids do jobs that are better done by older folks.

Let’s start with the ones serving on the front lines of our wars.

And the older folks should be the ones who want us to be there in the first place.
 
eman1200 said:
aaawww, the kids are getting butthurt. OP didn't even say anything out of line, but I guess today everything is offensive to everyone. and especially since "most" kids are just sooooo mature. anyways, this kid's a pilot, so prob should give him some amount of respect, I reckon.
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I used to say that being a pilot should warrant some degree of respect, then I met you.......and a bunch of other pilots..........and looked in the mirror.

I don't say that anymore.
 
jordane93 said:
We have 21 year old FOs and 23 year old captains at my airline
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So... if you're old enough to drink, you can sit in that right seat. :p:p:p

I know there is a min time to get that seat... but is there a min age?
 
OkieFlyer said:
I used to say that being a pilot should warrant some degree of respect, then I met you.......and a bunch of other pilots..........and looked in the mirror.

I don't say that anymore.
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don't you have a nascar race to watch?
 
AggieMike88 said:
So... if you're old enough to drink, you can sit in that right seat. :p:p:p

I know there is a min time to get that seat... but is there a min age?
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21 is the min age for 121 FO. 23 is the min age for 121 CA. There’s a bunch of CAs that are under 25 at my airline.
 
I looked at the OP’s comment as a compliment. It’s admirable that the young person is already a FO. And can’t believe how old we are. Oh how great it would be again to not have the worries we add as the decades add up. At least that would be my perspective.

Or if not-

Let the old folks be cranky
Let the young guns run the gauntlet.
Everyone suck it up and shaddap.

Says me. :)
 
So, what'd I miss? Apparently nothing, amiright? o_O
 
You do realize also that on the other side of the coin the kids are now sayin..."Did you see that co-pilot? My grandpa is younger than him..."

You are just old.

So am I, so now I just hire the kids that can do my job as well as I once did it (and then take the credit)...I think I need glasses...damnit...
 
With hours comes experience. With age comes wisdom.

Both are crucial parts of the profession.
 
Here’s the funniest part about this whole thing- I didn’t catch that @frfly172 was going to Tampa to pick up his airplane. New? Left it there for annual? What’s up with it?
 
SkyDog58 said:
I think we should stop letting these young kids do jobs that are better done by older folks.

Let’s start with the ones serving on the front lines of our wars.

And the older folks should be the ones who want us to be there in the first place.
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Old people have too many health problems.

Like bone spurs.
 
Fly out of Sarasota for most of the year,fly out of Ma. During the summer. Time to go north.
 
SkyDog58 said:
Let’s start with the ones serving on the front lines of our wars.
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What’s this “our” chit about wars? Last I checked, I don’t get to vote on wars. Billionaires and politician’s wars, more like.
 
I figure if we as a nation have kids dying in wars and as long as we are paying for the wars, they are our wars. But yeah, we don't get much say.
 
SkyDog58 said:
I figure if we as a nation have kids dying in wars and as long as we are paying for the wars, they are our wars. But yeah, we don't get much say.
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Hell, we still have a Draft. Thousands got no say whatsoever. Not that any politician has been stupid enough to try using it since VN.

Dad enlisted to avoid him not having a say. Decided he might survive six years in the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club vs four in a jungle.

And most of the politicians who served sure as hell weren’t enlisted.

But I’d forgotten the famous line from Good Morning Vietnam when the Sargeant-Major asked Cronauer, “What does three up and three down mean to you?” as he points at his arm...

“The end of an inning?”

:) :) :)

Of course in real life, Adrian Cronauer accepted disbarment in the District of Columbia as punishment for long term legal fraud in 2014.

There’s currently 80 members of Congress who have served. Considering only 2% of the US population has served, calling 80 out of roughly 535, or 15% a “representative” sample of average Americans is a bit ridiculous.

The military is highly over-represented amongst “our” ... “representatives”.

315 are lawyers, though. 58%. Lawyers make up less than 1% of the US population.

Pretty sure we aren’t actually “represented” by peers anymore. If we ever were.

I know this, it’s highly unlikely any of them represent my views on damn near anything.

Certainly not wars.
 
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