Still stuck at home

[88stang88]

No, I sit up front. RJ-200 for ASA, Delta Connection out of Atlanta.

Kurt

You lost me after "I sit up front."

 

[BlackVert]

kurt is a pilot. i don't know what the "RJ-200 for ASA" means tho

 

[revhead347]

ASA is short for Atlantic Southeast Airlines. We fly connection flights for Delta out of Atlanta, and United out of Washington Dulles.

This is the Canadair RJ-200 I fly. It's a 50 passenger regional jet.

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Kurt

 

[88stang88]

Being a pilot pays well im sure

 

[revhead347]

Being a pilot pays well im sure

Not in the right seat of a 50 seat jet it doesn't.

Kurt

 

[88stang88]

So I take it your the assistant pilot?

 

[revhead347]

Yeah, I'm a copilot. The airline industry is running a little slow these days, and getting a captain position is all dependent on seniority. And I'm not senior enough to hold a captain seat.

Kurt

 

[88stang88]

How long you been at the same job?

 

[revhead347]

I've been at this airline for just over 3 years. We have plenty of captains pulling in 6 figures, but they have generally been here for more than 10 years. Being an airline pilot is one of the few jobs with a rediculously out of balance pay scale. Pay for airline pilots ranges between $14/hr and $314/hr. It's only good when you have a lot of attrition or a lot of growth. We actually laid of 136 pilots last year, so it's been the suck ever since. I've been moving backwards.

Kurt

 

[xr8d302]

I like your wooly seats.

Hope you guys in the snow get dug out soon, at least before Tornado season...

I'm really really surprised at how the weather has been this year....snowy down south, nice up north...

crazy!

 

[reddy351]

ASA is short for Atlantic Southeast Airlines. We fly connection flights for Delta out of Atlanta, and United out of Washington Dulles.

This is the Canadair RJ-200 I fly. It's a 50 passenger regional jet.

Kurt

Those seats look like my cat's scratching post! Lol!

 

[88stang88]

Those seats look like my cat's scratching post! Lol!

I just got done watching the new Star Trek movie and wow we are outdated when it comes to cockpits!

 

[BlackVert]

the plow yesterday!!!!! we drove around last night.

i was snowed in for 6 days ... going to work now ...

 

[ProKiller]

congratulations! i think? your excited to go back to work for one day? i'm sure as hell not....

 

[revhead347]

Those seats look like my cat's scratching post! Lol!

Yeah, they kind of do. My cats just get the cardboard scratchers. It's a wool seat, and it's actually really comfortable. Has to be when you sit in it for 10 hours a day.

Kurt

 

[Hef5.0weisen]

what did you guys get for totals??? I rememeber ~1995 when we (East Coast)got little more than 2 feet, that was a lot, glad I had beer in the fridge. Kinda miss the snow...Sure you don't want to hear that though....

Nice flight deck there revhead, look around for C-130 (MC-130W)flight deck photos...thats my office, the seats are not comfortable, its loud, wah wah wah.....ancient airframe/design/avionics...but we do some cool stuff

 

[393strokervert]

SNOW??? what's snow??????? I've lived in Florida for 20yrs & been in South Florida for the last 12yrs........ I haven't even seen snow in years! I really feel sorry for you guy's up north,I have no idea what it is like to get snowed in & I don't want to find out anytime soon!..... to me, north= anywhere above FL

 

[xr8d302]

LOL! It's not north man....the snow is to your west!

Up north, we're wallowing in above seasonal temps and green fields

 

[393strokervert]

lol! just shows how much I pay attention to the weather channel...... I work outside in shorts/t-shirt 98% of the year! I would like to see a little snow sometime though, just a little down here, it's 62* & raining but is supposed to get all the way down to 38* tomorrow night!

 

[timeless2]

SNOW??? what's snow??????? I've lived in Florida for 20yrs & been in South Florida for the last 12yrs........ I haven't even seen snow in years! I really feel sorry for you guy's up north,I have no idea what it is like to get snowed in & I don't want to find out anytime soon!..... to me, north= anywhere above FL

Florida? Pass.

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