Just watched a couple of your videos through Flying Newsletter. Very well done and VERY informative, better than anything I've seen prior. Please keep them coming!
Sam! Great to see you on video. Not sure how it is I'm only now finding you. I remember your first print column at FLYING as a guest. Okay, maybe I don't recall the exact subject, but I enjoyed it so much I tracked you down on a social media platform to tell you. You responded telling me you were being picked up as a regular contributor, and since then that's my starting page. (Though Ben Younger is challenging your pinnacle position) Wow, that's been a few days. Can't recall if that was during the days of J. MAC or Robert Goyer. Anyway, thanks so much for taking us all along with you.
Not being a fan of Florida means that you have good taste. Could you tell us how long you had to sweat it out at the regionals before moving up to the majors? And how many days off after this 4 day trip?
Ten years to the day at the two regionals. Pretty typical of post-9/11...at 32 yrs old with 10k hours, I was the 3rd youngest and 3rd lowest time pilot in my class at Nameless Major Airline. Lessee, after that trip I had 3 days off. Just got done with a 6 day stint and have 8 off.
@@SamWeigel But you got hired at Nameless Major several years ago, is that right? Isn't the hiring picture much more favorable for guys coming up the ladder now? Frontier is putting guys in the right seat at only 1500 hours!
@@curtisb9422 Oh yeah it's changed a ton since I was hired in 2014. There was basically 13 years of very little hiring before that, and since then the floodgates have opened. Average newhire in most recent class at Nameless Major had 4200 hours. I've already flown with FOs in their mid-20s. The airline industry is way too fluid to reliably extrapolate forward (see: one Covid-19 pandemic) but barring another global meltdown, someone starting flight training today (if they already have their degree) could be at a major in 5 or 6 years. BTW the majors are all starting to come out with their own training academies/pipelines. It's getting very interesting.
A couple things that stuck out: You didn’t make your wife coffee when you left? Was that rhapsody in blue as your ringtone? Don’t you work for a certain ATL based airline? Hope you did some thing nice for your spouse for the 3am pickup!
Hah, Dawn's not a coffee drinker. Occasionally tea. Didn't want any this morning. And yeah that's just some standard apple ringtone I use for my alarm. Musical tastes run a few years this side of Gershwin. Trip release was 3am east coast time (my body was adjusted to EST by then) - but midnight in Seattle. Still very nice of Dawn to come get me!
*shrug* It's a personal preference. If we're just not gonna share those for fear of alienating people, we might as well go ahead and just delete the internet (wait, is that an option!? :-P). People tell me all the time that they find Minnesota too cold (truth!) and Washington too gloomy/rainy and Seattleites too standoffish & depressed. That's ok, they don't have to live here, and if everyone liked Washington as much as I do it'd be even more expensive than it is. I suspect the majority of the 22M people who live in Florida as well as the millions that visit every year love the place. That's cool, I don't begrudge them their preferences. And for the record, I *used* to dislike FL somewhat uniformly, but after cruising the FL east coast several times and living there for two winters, I have found portions of Florida that I enjoy very much.
Just watched a couple of your videos through Flying Newsletter. Very well done and VERY informative, better than anything I've seen prior. Please keep them coming!
Sam! Great to see you on video. Not sure how it is I'm only now finding you. I remember your first print column at FLYING as a guest. Okay, maybe I don't recall the exact subject, but I enjoyed it so much I tracked you down on a social media platform to tell you. You responded telling me you were being picked up as a regular contributor, and since then that's my starting page. (Though Ben Younger is challenging your pinnacle position) Wow, that's been a few days. Can't recall if that was during the days of J. MAC or Robert Goyer. Anyway, thanks so much for taking us all along with you.
Thanks for making this video. It was quite enjoyable!
Love the videos, keep it up its much appreciated
Not being a fan of Florida means that you have good taste. Could you tell us how long you had to sweat it out at the regionals before moving up to the majors? And how many days off after this 4 day trip?
Ten years to the day at the two regionals. Pretty typical of post-9/11...at 32 yrs old with 10k hours, I was the 3rd youngest and 3rd lowest time pilot in my class at Nameless Major Airline. Lessee, after that trip I had 3 days off. Just got done with a 6 day stint and have 8 off.
@@SamWeigel But you got hired at Nameless Major several years ago, is that right? Isn't the hiring picture much more favorable for guys coming up the ladder now? Frontier is putting guys in the right seat at only 1500 hours!
@@curtisb9422 Oh yeah it's changed a ton since I was hired in 2014. There was basically 13 years of very little hiring before that, and since then the floodgates have opened. Average newhire in most recent class at Nameless Major had 4200 hours. I've already flown with FOs in their mid-20s. The airline industry is way too fluid to reliably extrapolate forward (see: one Covid-19 pandemic) but barring another global meltdown, someone starting flight training today (if they already have their degree) could be at a major in 5 or 6 years. BTW the majors are all starting to come out with their own training academies/pipelines. It's getting very interesting.
A couple things that stuck out:
You didn’t make your wife coffee when you left?
Was that rhapsody in blue as your ringtone? Don’t you work for a certain ATL based airline?
Hope you did some thing nice for your spouse for the 3am pickup!
Hah, Dawn's not a coffee drinker. Occasionally tea. Didn't want any this morning. And yeah that's just some standard apple ringtone I use for my alarm. Musical tastes run a few years this side of Gershwin. Trip release was 3am east coast time (my body was adjusted to EST by then) - but midnight in Seattle. Still very nice of Dawn to come get me!
Why make a comment on not liking Florida? Good job alienating your audience.🙄
*shrug* It's a personal preference. If we're just not gonna share those for fear of alienating people, we might as well go ahead and just delete the internet (wait, is that an option!? :-P). People tell me all the time that they find Minnesota too cold (truth!) and Washington too gloomy/rainy and Seattleites too standoffish & depressed. That's ok, they don't have to live here, and if everyone liked Washington as much as I do it'd be even more expensive than it is. I suspect the majority of the 22M people who live in Florida as well as the millions that visit every year love the place. That's cool, I don't begrudge them their preferences. And for the record, I *used* to dislike FL somewhat uniformly, but after cruising the FL east coast several times and living there for two winters, I have found portions of Florida that I enjoy very much.