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Old 03-29-2009, 10:27 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by muushin View Post
Don't be a High Maintenance pilot!!


Hotel Waffles & Jimmy Dean Muffins (you can help yourself, but don't take too much) should suffice!!

What more do you really need?
Please, yes, be a high maintenance pilot. We have more strict guidelines on us telling us if we can do our jobs or not than doctors do. Can you be a pilot if you are colorblind? Yes, but it is hard. Can you if you have diabetes? No. Can a doctor? Yes. How many RX's can you be on? Not many. How about doctors? They can take nearly anything and still go to work. We often have 10's or 100's of lives in our hands on an hourly basis. They are lucky if they spend a combined hour talking to the 10 lives they have to deal with.

If we go through school and get a BS degree (around 120 hours) and also our Commerical Multi (Around 250-260 hours) we spend nearly enough time training to have 3 BS degrees!

It's about time we start getting paid what we are worth as professionals. Demand respect for yourself and your profession and expect to be paid like a professional.
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