Found a Proud Gulfstreamer Myspace

Yeah, I got one of those in there too.

Nope...normal schedule 8-5pm Tues-Sat!

Hey! I've only got 54 and I either know them or they are part of some cool groups or something. Funny thing was, I asked someone who is an F/A for US Airways to be my friend because she was on a group that I belonged to, and she replied, uh, why do you want me to be your friend. If you're just collecting women for your friend list, I'll pass, but if there's a reason, I'll add you.

So I told her why and she added me...and no, I'm not telling you who she is, otherwise, you'd all be like, add me!

::goes to check tony's friend list::

Got the reply woo-hoo!

That is the only way the airline get first officers is through that program. Technically i am not paying for my job because the hours i pay for i am not even an employee of the airline. I have no benifits or nothin right now. Once the 250hrs is over with then i become an employee. So really i didnt pay for the job. I only paid for the training in that a/c. After the 250 i still have to go through an interview to see if the company even likes me. Plus i get to the majors MUCH faster then anyone else with my time. While u are sitting around instructing to get 1000 and 1 before any regional airline will look at u. Then when u get that regional job ur upgrade is gonna be a minimum of 3yrs. Me on the other hand upgrade right at 1500TT and start building turbine PIC while u are sitting on ur ass at a regional getting SIC. I get PIC time for another 2 years then get to go right into the majors. Now i am sitting at a mojor and u will still be sitting at the regional not even upgraded yet. Also i am gaining turbine multi and 121 experience before u even think about airlines. Oh yah then i will have my seniority number at a major before u will. Now u get into the majors and they layoff people. Well now u are laidoff and i am still with the company because i got there quicker. Its all ******** about people saying that airlines dont like our guys because we get hired by regionals and majors every month. Say i dont get hired after my 250 well regionals take us after that. Pinnacle has taken 70 of our F/O's with just 500TT this year alone. Express Jet has hired our F/O's this year already. American Eagle has Hired F/O's. Captains have gone too Continental, AirTran and Southwest this year already. To kinda answer ur last question. Gulfstream is not a career airline. The airlines purpose is for people to time build and get enough hours for the majors then get the **** out so the next guy can go through. The only way the airline gets F/O's is through the program. They fly their time upgrade to captain get a couple thousand PIC then go right into a major. If u do all ur training 141 like comair academy its pretty much the exact same thing. Once u have paid ur 50K or wut ever to go through the program and instruct for them well U get a job at a regional. If u say my program has no instruction involved well that is technically wrong too because when we are captains most of our F/O's have very little time and we have to instruct them as well and make sure they fly the airplane in the safest possible manner. That is my 2 cents so take it or leave it. If u call that selling myself short. I still work my ass off everyday so i can get into an airline. How is flying average of 90hrs a month not hard work huh? How is building my TT up just like everyone else for the same exact goal not hard work huh? I am just going a different and quicker route.

HOLY SH*T !

Yeap, so hard to respond to it.

:banghead:

Wut?

Has anyone tried sending in emails to news/media companies to get their attention about this 'program'? The media is extremely interested in aviation related safety factors...

On second that, it would be a bunch of free advertising and probably increase their "enrollment" !

Maybe he went to PFT Gulfstream grammer school to because that was just horrible!

Nope, no one in the news/media will really care.

As long as no passengers have been killed (safety record is perfect), the media won't care.

And as far as passengers: as long as the fare is rock bottom $39 one way between Orlando and Miami, passengers won't care.

who knows, maybe this WILL be the only way in the years to come.

tiiiime, why you punish meee

maybe not the media as in....the local news. but somethin more like 60 minutes, or one of them type shows maybe.....get barbara walters on it !

Have you read all of the 'letters of thanks' on the Gulfstream site? Why would a bunch of major airline Capts send their kids there?

Beyond me..

1. That guy is an idiot!
2. His MySpace site sucks!!
3. I vomited after reading his response.
4. I hope I never run into this guy...

:banghead::banghead:

Checked the ALPA master SCAB list that should answer all your questions.

Well, he obviously doesn't understand (or refuses to acknowledge) what exactly it means for him to be paying to sit in that seat. F 'em, hope I never meet him down the road.

hmmm... maybe that comes from being "taxi and runup certified on both a/c"... or he got 'income' confused with 'debt'

holy what a tool. sounds like canned responses/reasons given to him by his company cause they know they're gonna take .