New job coming up

[94touring]

I tentatively have a class date at a new company February 3rd.  Those with cars at my shop...well the pause button gets pressed for 2 months while I endure some very rigorous training.  Just had my 10 year anniversary at the current company and as much as I'll miss the hundreds of co workers I've formed a relationship with, I am very much looking forward to bigger and better things.  The new job will be flying a 777 for an international charter company.  They mainly have military contracts but also cruise ships and other vacations type companies that feed passengers through them.  Apparently some other carriers lease out the operation depending on the season to fly their passengers around when they can't staff or have the planes available.  Anyways some benefits will be home more, and longer stretches at a time, instead of my 2-3 days off I get now.  I may be gone a few weeks at a time but then have a month off kind of schedule.  Other notable intriguing factor is the headquarters is here in Tulsa and they want a new chief pilot on the 777.  That person being me once I get some operational experience.   How that offer was tossed on the table could be posted in the drunk thread.  Ended up going out for drinks with the management (CEO, VP, Chief) a couple weeks ago somewhat accidentally and it also served as my interview apparently.  I had recently applied and was hopeful to just hear anything back.  In the airline world getting an interview is a hard task, usually involves work shops, paying a 3rd party consulting company to do interview prep, and a shit ton of stress and other BS hoops to jump through.  I feel like my experience was nothing short of a miracle.  I was also offered a chief pilot job at my current company which I turned down for this new opportunity.  Things are going good! 

[Willie_B]

Wow. that's great to hear.

[MiniDave]

Congrats! Movin on up!  77.gif

[gr8kornholio]

Glad to hear the "interview" went well. 

[94touring]

Glad to hear the "interview" went well.

Everyone was out of commission the whole next day.   I was just glad they remembered the part where they hired me.

[gr8kornholio]

That's true.  Especially if you didn't get the terms in writing, I mean scribbles, on like a napkin or something.

[Jims5543]

Glad to hear the "interview" went well.

Everyone was out of commission the whole next day.   I was just glad they remembered the part where they hired me.

Thank god for alcohol!! Lubricating the wheels when you need it too.

Congrats!! 

[minifrisco]

Congratulations!!!

[BruceK]

Super news!  I'm very happy for you.

[Jimini II]

Good news congratulations.

[94touring]

Feb 3rd was confirmed today.  Got a stack of material to learn by then.  The job notice goes in the 1st of January.

[MiniDave]

Excellent news, I guess we won't be hearing much from you after mid January as you study!

[94touring]

Won't be much from me till April

[MPlayle]

When in April?  Thinking ahead to how the change will affect your possibly making the tentative South Texas Hill Country run.

[94touring]

Honestly no clue.  I'll get done with ground school and sim, then be doing initial operating experience somwhere on the other side of the planet for a month probably with a stretch of days off somewhere in there. 

[MPlayle]

The tentative dates for the drive event are April 19 - 26.

[94touring]

Hopefully I'm free then.  Time will tell. 

[snack]

Congratulations Dan!

[Bond007mini]

Congratulations!! Wishing you the best of luck!!

[94touring]

Finished up 9 fixed based sims and then tonight got a proficiency check on the full motion sim.  Now off to Dallas to complete the rest of the full motion sims and get this done after a systems exam tomorrow. I got swapped from my initial sim partner cause I was leaving him in my dust, and they gave me the guy with 747 time which is nearly identical to the 777.  With us together we're plowing through this stuff like it's nothing.  First attempt landing this thing was a breeze as well.  Definitely the gentleman's airplane.

[MiniDave]

Nice...flying the sim. Did they let you go to any cool airports, or just the usual places....LAX, Ohare, Atlanta, JFK....like that?

No more flying into podunk airports for you, right? Time for the big leagues?

[BruceK]

Super!  Sounds like a lot of hard work, but fun too.

[gr8kornholio]

Pretty cool stuff.  Hopefully you'll be extra busy with training cause the are slowly closing Dallas down.

[94touring]

Nice...flying the sim. Did they let you go to any cool airports, or just the usual places....LAX, Ohare, Atlanta, JFK....like that?

No more flying into podunk airports for you, right? Time for the big leagues?

SFO to LAX, takeoff have some emergencies, return to SFO, go around, pop an engine, fly a single engine procedure missing terrain, come back around land type of thing. 

Real world flying will all over the globe to some popular and not so popular destinations.  Realize we do department of defense stuff.  Not your ordinary airline. 

[94touring]

Pretty cool stuff.  Hopefully you'll be extra busy with training cause the are slowly closing Dallas down.

I've basically been in self quarantine this whole month lol