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Originally Posted by Capt. Caucasian  Ah, you might know a good friend of mine's dad with a last name of Ellot. He did the commute also for a few years before he got fed up in the early nineties. Also, I flew with a few x-Piedmont ATL guys at airline number one of four, Pace Airlines (Piedmont-Hawthorne). |
THAD?? I got stories about Thad... got to fly once with him in his Maule and flew with him on the line. Very interesting fellow to fly with...
And if you were with Pace, you know "Good good good", right? Stories there also.
PI was a good place to be. It wasn't just work.. it was a good place to be. Then came what all three pilot groups will concede was a train wreck. It steadily went downhill after that as far how the company treated the employees but I met some of the best guys. And our training dept was a great place to work.
Our training boss when I was there put it bluntly when he said, "You are a servant to the line pilot. IF there is an unsat on a ride, the first place we come is to you, the instructor. You WILL do whatever is needed to send that pilot back to the line a better pilot."
We didn't get to the point where guys liked going to training but we did achieve a level that guys/gals coming in knew they were going to learn, we are not going to shovel them bull##### and call it candy, and they were going to get a fair evaluation. Guys who liked to play 'stump the dummy' or hammer guys in the sim got a quick attitude adjustment.