wazua Tue, Mar 24, 2026
Welcome Guest Search | Active Topics | Log In

1,583 Pages«<407408409410411>»
Kenya Airways...why ignore..
Impunity
#4081 Posted : Saturday, May 07, 2016 3:23:58 PM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 3/2/2009
Posts: 26,331
Location: Masada
Horton wrote:
@impunity. Its fun to hear/read what the general population have to say about my career. Also funny to hear how a good population think we just sit, read newspapers and get paid alot of money for nothing 😂 My flight school used to have a slogan, "the best safety device is a well trained pilot" remember pilots are there especially when things go wrong. Flying isnt for everyone. Not everyone has a knack for it.

Half knowledge is dangerous. Having flown both heavy jet & piston, with over 10,000hours experience, I can authoritatively say that your sentiments are not true. Jet flying is 4 times, if not more, quicker, therefore decisions have to be made that mich quicker and these come in fast and furious as you constantly monitor soo many critical systems. There are more critical systems to monitor on a jet chances on a piston is that the most critical is just your engine- where if it fails, u just glide to the nearest field .....Cant do that on a heavy. Autopilots are very critical in safe operation of jets their operation has to be mastered and well understood or they can lead to undesirable state of the aircraft if not used properly, they have been installed to let pilots do other important things like think and have to be directed what to do, its not that we just punch it on and we go to sleep. From what I can tell, your info is coming from Wilson pilots who have only flown piston and have this common misconception that jet flying is "easy" ......until they cross over and struggle to mentally stay at the same pace as these fast moving airplanes and a number dont hack it and are sent back to GA. Most piston flights are conducted under VFR where u only fly when the weather is pretty close to CAVOK, whereas that CAT 3 landing u referred to, they have to get into an airport with poor weather- visibility and not generally used all the time as u purported. If u are truly interested on flying and wanna have a 1 on 1, email me.


I cannot email you coz you dont know my proffesion.

Some wazuans say I hit metals, others say I chomelea chuma...but thats what they say.

Eti autopilot flies the jet while your work is to monitor critical system for 8 hour flight, just in any case one of them fails.Fantasy.

How many heavy jet pilots have been caugh napping in the cabin vis a vis light piston props?

If you know your car wil change gear automatically while in cruise, then you will have time to sip some drinks...you cannot do that with a manual gear transmission and stil drive safely.

By the way the critical system you are monitoring will always give you visual and aural warnings (and sometimes shaker)...so its not like you look at the screen and gauges 24/7 and tega sikio to hear if the engine stalls...tell those stories to Home Science graduates please.

Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.

obiero
#4082 Posted : Sunday, May 08, 2016 6:13:45 PM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 6/23/2009
Posts: 14,226
Location: nairobi
Impunity
#4083 Posted : Sunday, May 08, 2016 9:29:22 PM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 3/2/2009
Posts: 26,331
Location: Masada
obiero wrote:

Sad
Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.

UpcomingPaperChaser
#4084 Posted : Monday, May 09, 2016 1:38:31 AM
Rank: Member

Joined: 1/20/2015
Posts: 489
Location: Nairobi
Impunity wrote:
Horton wrote:
@impunity. Its fun to hear/read what the general population have to say about my career. Also funny to hear how a good population think we just sit, read newspapers and get paid alot of money for nothing 😂 My flight school used to have a slogan, "the best safety device is a well trained pilot" remember pilots are there especially when things go wrong. Flying isnt for everyone. Not everyone has a knack for it.

Half knowledge is dangerous. Having flown both heavy jet & piston, with over 10,000hours experience, I can authoritatively say that your sentiments are not true. Jet flying is 4 times, if not more, quicker, therefore decisions have to be made that mich quicker and these come in fast and furious as you constantly monitor soo many critical systems. There are more critical systems to monitor on a jet chances on a piston is that the most critical is just your engine- where if it fails, u just glide to the nearest field .....Cant do that on a heavy. Autopilots are very critical in safe operation of jets their operation has to be mastered and well understood or they can lead to undesirable state of the aircraft if not used properly, they have been installed to let pilots do other important things like think and have to be directed what to do, its not that we just punch it on and we go to sleep. From what I can tell, your info is coming from Wilson pilots who have only flown piston and have this common misconception that jet flying is "easy" ......until they cross over and struggle to mentally stay at the same pace as these fast moving airplanes and a number dont hack it and are sent back to GA. Most piston flights are conducted under VFR where u only fly when the weather is pretty close to CAVOK, whereas that CAT 3 landing u referred to, they have to get into an airport with poor weather- visibility and not generally used all the time as u purported. If u are truly interested on flying and wanna have a 1 on 1, email me.


I cannot email you coz you dont know my proffesion.

Some wazuans say I hit metals, others say I chomelea chuma...but thats what they say.

Eti autopilot flies the jet while your work is to monitor critical system for 8 hour flight, just in any case one of them fails.Fantasy.

How many heavy jet pilots have been caugh napping in the cabin vis a vis light piston props?

If you know your car wil change gear automatically while in cruise, then you will have time to sip some drinks...you cannot do that with a manual gear transmission and stil drive safely.

By the way the critical system you are monitoring will always give you visual and aural warnings (and sometimes shaker)...so its not like you look at the screen and gauges 24/7 and tega sikio to hear if the engine stalls...tell those stories to Home Science graduates please.



Monitoring is easy, these guys sleep a lot, after all the monitoring is so easy since you have all the data within your closest reach!
Enjoy every moment of your life, you never know when your time will come.
Impunity
#4085 Posted : Monday, May 09, 2016 8:56:31 AM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 3/2/2009
Posts: 26,331
Location: Masada
UpcomingPaperChaser wrote:
Impunity wrote:
Horton wrote:
@impunity. Its fun to hear/read what the general population have to say about my career. Also funny to hear how a good population think we just sit, read newspapers and get paid alot of money for nothing 😂 My flight school used to have a slogan, "the best safety device is a well trained pilot" remember pilots are there especially when things go wrong. Flying isnt for everyone. Not everyone has a knack for it.

Half knowledge is dangerous. Having flown both heavy jet & piston, with over 10,000hours experience, I can authoritatively say that your sentiments are not true. Jet flying is 4 times, if not more, quicker, therefore decisions have to be made that mich quicker and these come in fast and furious as you constantly monitor soo many critical systems. There are more critical systems to monitor on a jet chances on a piston is that the most critical is just your engine- where if it fails, u just glide to the nearest field .....Cant do that on a heavy. Autopilots are very critical in safe operation of jets their operation has to be mastered and well understood or they can lead to undesirable state of the aircraft if not used properly, they have been installed to let pilots do other important things like think and have to be directed what to do, its not that we just punch it on and we go to sleep. From what I can tell, your info is coming from Wilson pilots who have only flown piston and have this common misconception that jet flying is "easy" ......until they cross over and struggle to mentally stay at the same pace as these fast moving airplanes and a number dont hack it and are sent back to GA. Most piston flights are conducted under VFR where u only fly when the weather is pretty close to CAVOK, whereas that CAT 3 landing u referred to, they have to get into an airport with poor weather- visibility and not generally used all the time as u purported. If u are truly interested on flying and wanna have a 1 on 1, email me.


I cannot email you coz you dont know my proffesion.

Some wazuans say I hit metals, others say I chomelea chuma...but thats what they say.

Eti autopilot flies the jet while your work is to monitor critical system for 8 hour flight, just in any case one of them fails.Fantasy.

How many heavy jet pilots have been caugh napping in the cabin vis a vis light piston props?

If you know your car wil change gear automatically while in cruise, then you will have time to sip some drinks...you cannot do that with a manual gear transmission and stil drive safely.

By the way the critical system you are monitoring will always give you visual and aural warnings (and sometimes shaker)...so its not like you look at the screen and gauges 24/7 and tega sikio to hear if the engine stalls...tell those stories to Home Science graduates please.



Monitoring is easy, these guys sleep a lot, after all the monitoring is so easy since you have all the data within your closest reach!


They dont even even need to watch "the critical" system with their eyes open, they can keep their damn eyes pretty closed and wait for aural warnings for any malfunction.
Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.

Horton
#4086 Posted : Monday, May 09, 2016 9:27:37 AM
Rank: Veteran

Joined: 8/30/2007
Posts: 1,558
Location: Nairobi
Haha thats from people who "know everything about everything". The so called wazua experts@impunity So u reckon we sleep and wake up when we hear aural sounds?hahaha
some of these "arguments" are so ridiculous, people who have never been on a flightdeck of anything tell us tales like these. Lets stick to what we know and not "speculate"

maka
#4087 Posted : Monday, May 09, 2016 10:18:04 AM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 4/22/2010
Posts: 11,522
Location: Nairobi
I think working for kq is the worst experience right now....I pity the staff.
possunt quia posse videntur
KulaRaha
#4088 Posted : Monday, May 09, 2016 10:44:39 AM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 7/26/2007
Posts: 6,514
maka wrote:
I think working for kq is the worst experience right now....I pity the staff.


If you go back far enough, you'll see all the complaints about KQ staff being rude, unfriendly, unwilling to serve, nasty, aloof etc. They even wore badges saying "I Smile" coz they were such an ungrateful bunch. That was when stock price was between 30 and 60.

Karma is best served cold.
Business opportunities are like buses,there's always another one coming
maka
#4089 Posted : Monday, May 09, 2016 10:54:11 AM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 4/22/2010
Posts: 11,522
Location: Nairobi
KulaRaha wrote:
maka wrote:
I think working for kq is the worst experience right now....I pity the staff.


If you go back far enough, you'll see all the complaints about KQ staff being rude, unfriendly, unwilling to serve, nasty, aloof etc. They even wore badges saying "I Smile" coz they were such an ungrateful bunch. That was when stock price was between 30 and 60.

Karma is best served cold.


smile Heeeh pole kwao...That place is a shithole.
possunt quia posse videntur
Impunity
#4090 Posted : Monday, May 09, 2016 11:16:05 AM
Rank: Elder

Joined: 3/2/2009
Posts: 26,331
Location: Masada
How is it shithole now?
Sad

I think they have been spared the rod and hence the place should now be smelling like a dinner lounge?
Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.

1,583 Pages«<407408409410411>»
Forum Jump  
You cannot post new topics in this forum.
You cannot reply to topics in this forum.
You cannot delete your posts in this forum.
You cannot edit your posts in this forum.
You cannot create polls in this forum.
You cannot vote in polls in this forum.

Copyright © 2026 Wazua.co.ke. All Rights Reserved.