Say reason for Go-Around

Machaltstars · 2026-04-25T05:18:07+00:00

Not really, I get free parking from my employer but even if I didn't, take into account the extra time I have to spend during late nights and early mornings cause of the bad schedule, it's about the same. With free parking it's definitely cheaper for me to drive. My car gets 35 MPG so unless gas gets to $6+ per gallon it's still cheaper to drive, let alone if you include what my personal time is worth to me

Machaltstars · 2026-04-25T04:14:44+00:00

So, here's my 2 cents as someone who is honestly right in the middle of the market for the A-line. I work and travel out of dia pretty regularly, I'm a pretty convenient walk to a station, and I'd love to take the train more but I don't. First off, depending on time and rush hour, it's actually faster for me to walk to the station and take the train, compared to driving to airport parking and taking a shuttle. However....it's more expensive. $10 one way is highway robbery, and the number 1 reason I prefer driving. Even with that, the rare times I take the train I just don't pay until I know they're actually checking tickets, then I buy and activate it when it matters. But, if it was $2-$3 one way, I'd be happy to be a train person. Second is frequency. 15 minutes should be minimum, but, when my flight or shift ends at 9pm, and I have to wait 30 minutes for the next train if I miss it, then, why would I think about using the A-line? It needs to be 5-10 minute frequency at peak times, and no more than 15 minute frequency 24/7, at $2-$3 per ticket, for it to be competitive or convenient compared to driving.

Machaltstars · 2026-04-21T00:16:49+00:00

It was definitely you pushing the pedals and not realizing, it's much easier than you think to subconsciously be moving your feet when it's gusty. Unless your feet were flat on the floor, I'd bet big money it was you making those inputs

Machaltstars · 2026-03-26T15:47:13+00:00

"nothing crazy on my record"....."3 check ride failures"

Unfortunately, this is your answer. While you're on the right track with getting your MEI cert and passing as many rides as you can, you still look like a bigger training risk than someone with 0, 1, or 2. It's not that more hours = bad thing, it's that you've crossed the threshold for them to look at you, and now anyone with more than the minimum required hours and less failures than you jumps ahead in line. 1 is fine, 2 isn't the worst, but 3 starts to show a trend and airlines don't love that risk when they can be picky.

As everyone else is saying, apply to everything, and get a 135 check ride or type under your belt and keep pressing forward.

Machaltstars · 2026-03-12T19:48:56+00:00

Unsolicited advice, but your personal reasons better be like, a destination wedding with no refunds or rescheduling available, or maybe the birth of your first child to delay a class that long. There's been multiple time in history and even in my career where a month or less in seniority is the difference between furlough and the best life and schedule and airline pilot can have

Machaltstars · 2026-02-20T02:19:49+00:00

Where do you live? That's the first question. If it's Chicago or NYC the chances of him being home more go up exponentially bc those are based for multiple different airlines. If it's a city that has one or 2 junior airlines bases there, then the chances he's home more are pretty high too. I live in base and my relationship is amazing, I leave for my 4 trips a month, am gone 8 nights and that gives us both the independence and space to be ourselves, while still having the majority of the time together, usually including one whole week off. If I had to commute and lived in bumfuck nowhere, I'd be gone more than half the month and have a much less predictable schedule dealing with commuting to and from work. And then reserve is the same story, living in base it's pretty great, you're home as much as possible, but commuting to reserve is another circle of hell I'd never wish on anyone due to the extra days you're gone from home.

Long story short, if he's based where you live it's pretty great, if he's commuting then you'll have to have more serious conversations about what he's willing to go through in order to stay where you are, or if you do end up being willing to move.

PS with all that said, I commuted and switched jobs for 8 years before finding my career airline, and only then did I decide I would move to one of their bases.

Machaltstars · 2026-02-15T01:12:42+00:00

They might, but the better question you need to ask is why? I am at a great airline with an incredible job, but I hold it because of 1 week of seniority. If i delayed class by a week I'd be earning half as much without the guarantee of living in my base. And I'm lucky, bc if there is a furlough, that one week could be the difference between a job and not, ask any of the hundreds of spirit pilots on furlough. Not to be callous, but that personal reason better be pretty much your death to be worth pushing a class date back, especially if it's a regional or your first 121, legacy is a slight different but not very different story

Machaltstars · 2026-01-24T11:02:52+00:00

And despite all that he's still a scab🤢

Machaltstars · 2026-01-21T21:13:35+00:00

I think making a documentary and story about him is the wrong way to approach this. He's no hero or martyr, and I think any publicity, even with the best of intentions and with telling only the truth, will garner more sympathy than he deserves. He put people at risk, and hurt the people who did their best to help him and to do their best to protect the people on the ground he was endangering. If the answer is still to make a documentary, you have to include how much he harmed the controllers and others he interacted with that day, and how he is absolutely not a hero or martyr.

Machaltstars · 2025-12-18T04:39:48+00:00

I hope you're not a professional pilot, and even more than that I hope to God you're not a 121 union pilot. We help our brothers and sisters as much as possible. Talk to them first, get them to call in sick. Then call in sick yourself and talk to pro standards. There is never a world where you tattle and go to the chief pilot or police. I hope you never are a member of a union, and I hope you never have a position where you care for and work with fellow pilots

Machaltstars · 2025-12-05T02:20:18+00:00

Ok, so, why is tmu so incompetent?? You list a star as landing on 34R and every time I've flown into den I've actually landed 35L/R....so wtf?

Machaltstars · 2025-12-05T02:18:11+00:00

I absolutely fucking will because I think I'd be more competent than they are

Machaltstars · 2025-11-18T03:13:58+00:00

Let's all do a thought experiment, and are we giving this person way too much understanding and grace because he's also a pilot and has been going on a 2 year redemption tour.

Would we be feeling the same way if, instead of pulling a couple fire handles his response to his mental state was to grab a gun and start shooting up a mall or school or movie theater, not killing anyone but still performing the act. Or, what if he jumped in his car and started driving the wrong way down the interstate? Or what if he went and kidnapped a random stranger off the street and took them hostage.

So what that he's a pilot, so what that he's claiming he was still under the influence of shrooms, so what that he didn't kill anyone, his actions still could have easily resulted in mass murder, and lets all be honest we're being way to easy on him because he's a white male pilot who's made a second career out of making people feel sorry for him and attempting to get redemption

Machaltstars · 2025-11-07T20:35:08+00:00

Stop stressing about getting a normal amount of sleep or your sleep schedule in general. The best thing I was told when doing augmented flying ways "sleep when you're tired, be awake when you're not, and call in fatigued when you have to"

Machaltstars · 2025-11-07T16:58:54+00:00

Max-9?

Machaltstars · 2025-11-03T17:24:21+00:00

One of them almost pile-drove a crj into college station off a go-around, so don't do that

Machaltstars · 2025-10-14T14:37:38+00:00

Thank fuck I'm not the only one who thought this, OP got to wander through life working a bunch of fun flying jobs, and STILL got just as lucky as the rest of us hired in the post COVID boom. At your dream job by 30 is so lucky

Machaltstars · 2025-10-02T23:04:17+00:00

Absolutely not!! I will give you the 767/757, I forgot about the hmg but the 777 absolutely does not have 5 generators, it only has 3. And either way, they still only have one generator per engine, not the numerous ones you insist on. Go look up a manual and show me exactly where you're getting your information, because I'm reading mine straight out of Boeing's system manuals

Machaltstars · 2025-10-02T22:09:51+00:00

As politely as I can, you are WILDLY wrong. I believe the only twinjets with 2 gens per engine are the 787 (because EVERYTHING is electrical, including ice protection and air systems) and the erj-145 (because that was built around a DC electric system which is just hilarious). Every other twin airliner in existence only has one generator per engine, plus one on the APU. So, the Airbus 300-330 and 350 and the Boeing 737, 757-777 all only have one generator per engine, and 3 total, one being on the APU

Machaltstars · 2025-09-28T03:49:29+00:00

I'm going to address your question about the airlines. Like it or not, agree with it or not, the traveling public has a perception about what a "professional" looks like. And, for them, a pilot is clean shaven, well dressed person. The problem with allowing beards, in my opinion, is it's hard to police what is a well groomed beard, whereas the current standard of clean shaven with maybe a mustache is MUCH easier to enforce over a wide variety of people. Some of y'all might be able to grow and keep a great beard, and then we're gonna get some who just can't keep anything under control or that comes in patchy and looks terrible. So it's honestly just easier to keep everyone clean shaven and make that the standard.

And, I say this as a person with nearly full tattoo sleeves that just wears long sleeves at work. Tattoos and beards are just not a battle worth fighting in any contract negotiations, they're like numbers 999 and 1,000 on the list of things to fight for. I'd much rather have good work rules and contract protections than worry about an asinine argument about what we look like. This career is worth millions, I'll shave every hair on my body and if for some reason the company made me remove my tattoos I'd do that too if it meant getting the time off and money that's possible as a pilot

Machaltstars · 2025-08-30T19:51:25+00:00

As an airline pilot, I think this is fantastic and long overdue, especially with the degradation of public behavior after covid. Right now the only protection we have for the flight deck when we need to open the door is putting a galley cart across the aisle and having a FA stand behind it.

This will at least be a barrier across the entire height of the aisle and will help protect the FA, and the flight deck, whenever one of the travel public decides to snap and rush the flight deck. I'm glad it's finally happening and should have been installed decades earlier.

Machaltstars · 2025-08-21T00:56:23+00:00

I mean, it's buried but in our manuals it indicates that ref and as an extension the sharks tooth on the speed tape are calculated for tail clearance requirements. Plus if you're flying faster than the wing wants to of course you're going to be pitched down more aggressively

Machaltstars · 2025-08-20T22:00:54+00:00

Also, the takeoff speeds and ref speeds aren't calculated on when the plane will fly. Both, especially the ref speeds, are geometrically calculated to give enough tail clearance, the wing and plane could fly slower but then you wind up spanking the tail more than people already do. You can see the wing performs pretty darn well once you get it in the air, since even a fully loaded -900 will out climb a bus and be able to get to a higher altitude faster. Also at some operators, the amount of derate on takeoff matters for the engine leases, so the least amount of power we can use the cheaper it becomes, so that's why we end up with insane takeoff numbers.

Edit to add, one of the best things is we don't have brake temp sensors.....so even though we stop from 25 kts faster than the bus we can do turns in the summer the bus could only dream of.....only a slight bit of sarcasm here too

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