Me fealings no, im just a mad autopilot with a telephone line.

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Also I think correct me if I’m wrong Flight Chick but I think you were asking does Young Mr. Weaver really exist.

Flight Chick? Who is this crazy impostor trying to steal my identity? I’ll get her, I will, damn it!!!! 😡

I don’t care for the experience “one upmanship” found among some pilots. Should I care?

Thats not actually what you implied in your previous post.

All pilots and indeed people are different. I have met nice and nasty people in all walks of life and professions. Therefore, you can’t draw on a handful of personal experiences to judge a whole group of people. You had a bad experience with a group of pilots at one particular airport at one particular time – but that is no reason to write off all GA pilots as arrogant morons.

As for commercial pilots having, superior knowledge/skills/experiences this is again a sweeping generalisation in my view. You can’t possibly differentiate between two groups so large and diverse. GA can encompass a 17 yr old PPL with 45 hours to their name and an aerobatic pilot with thousands of hours and many years around display scenes. There is simply no comparison to be made. Similarly with commercial pilots, many of them come from many walks of life, with many different aviation backgrounds. Some have many hours GA and fly a variety of types and some go straight through from zero to ATPL at a commercial school.

Therefore, the whole line of your argument is flawed and futile. You are trying to claim something that cannot be true given the variables involved. This is why I don’t agree with you and I believe my grounds are rational and sensible. I have met a lot of arrogant airline pilots and a lot of arrogant GA pilots – but I have also met a lot of skilled and intelligent people from both groups.

My objection to your opinion is that you seem to be alligning yourself with the arrogant group by expressing yourself in a superior and condescending fashion. I may not have thousands of hours on the flight deck myself but I have been around aviation most of my life and have been lucky enough to meet a wide variety of very talented and interesting people. I know a number of airline pilots, display pilots, instructors and Sunday afternoon pilots – all of whom I believe have given me a valuable insight into their side of aviation. I do not appreciate being denied a right to state an opinion simply because I “have never walked in the shoes of the professional pilot.” You have never walked in my shoes (they probably wouldn’t fit you anyway) but that does not mean that you don’t have a right to have an opinion about what I do or the way in which I do it. (I believe you referred to my opinions as “arrogant generalisations” in an earlier post). Do us GA pilots not deserve the same right?

You’re comparing the “ease” of a 1960’s 3 crewed aircraft to the 2 person crews of today? I think there are some folks who’ve ACTUALLY flown both that might disagree with you. It’s often said the easiest job in aviation is a 727 FO.

And you seem to be perpetuating them as well with your uninformed opinions of professional pilots.

If you’re talking about flying aerobatics then yes your 10 hours are more applicable. If you’re talking about some serious IFR flying than those 10 hours are worthless. Aviation has a wide range of jobs and pilot training must be geared towards specific environments. You seem to be caught up believing that your flight time transfers equally across all aspects of aviation and somehow increases your worth as a pilot. Trust me, it doesn’t.

Without having walked a mile in the shoes of a professional pilot how do you justify your comments? How does straight and level in a C152 differ than a 737? Honestly the new C172’s are better equiped that most airliners. Dual GPS, 3 axis autopilot?

Bus driver of the sky? Oh man, ignorance is written all over this.

All of your comments have been nothing but arrogance and sweeping generalisations FC.

You seem to be under the impression that professional pilots woke up flying an airliner one day and have never set foot in a GA aircraft. I personally have 1000 hours in small aircraft with a good part of that time as a flight instructor. That time even includes 400 hours of me folding my 6′ 6″ frame into the wonderful C152.

You seem to take a look at the last 1000 hours of someone’s experiences without understanding that there are 1000’s of hours before that which include experiences you don’t know about.

The single biggest variable and builder of experience for any pilot (especially a GA pilot) is weather. It’s safe to say that a professional pilot has seen more types of weather in different situations than any GA pilot can hope to see. Ask yourself, on those days when the GA community is grounded due to weather how many airliners and other commerical aircraft can’t fly? When the winds are pushing 30-40 knots it’s not the automation that safely lands that aircraft no matter what you’ve assumed.

Skycruiser is right, Commerical pilots have greater experience and knowledge than your average GA pilot. That’s not arrogance, it’s the truth. We’ve seen both sides of the aviation coin.

Well I think I can tell what your day job is! Chill out dude. I don’t agree with you but does that matter? According to you, I’m just a silly little girl flying silly little planes who has no idea about anything up on the flight deck with the big boys – so don’t let me stress you out so much! Take care or you’ll give yourself an embolism, then they won’t let you fly anymore 😉

DME, I’ll be flying PA31-350s which are 8 to 10 seater regional commuter airliners made by Piper. This is an interim measure by the airline I’m going to and they will be replaced by BAe Jetstream 31s in about 6 to 12 months time so I’ll be off to BAe to do my type rating at some point during the summer probably.

Pretty good going for one so young. The commercial route is not for me but lots of people do seem to make good careers out of it. I just hate all the bull**** and arrogance that goes along with it – just don’t get sucked into that side of things.

In my eyes, airline pilots have greater experience and knowledge than our Sunday afternoon flying chums. 😉

That is an arrogant and sweeping generalisation. You only say that because you happen to fly airliners yourself. Just because you sit in a comfortabke cockpit with your feet up following your procedures you automatically are more experienced? Hmmmmmm, rubbish!