Originally Posted by
saab2000
Just curious, but where do folks learn swept wing jets if not in the airline world? The flying slots in the military are really measured in the hundreds or low thousands, at best.
Most (quality) part 91 jobs involving jets are far more competitive than airline jobs and 135 jobs can be very sketchy, unless it's a reputable fractional, in which case it's also probably more competitive than an airline too.
Speaking of military, it would be interesting to find out the average time of the military pilots flying fighters and heavy jets. They seem to do it pretty successfully without requiring thousands of hours.
It's all in the selection and training IMHO, not necessarily in a metric set at an arbitrary number.
FWIW, I've flown with relatively low-time pilots are might not be great because of low time, but they learned fast and do not require 'basic training'. They do great. And I've flown with 10,000 folks who scare the crap out of me.
While everything you say is dead on, be careful expressing it as it simply does not fit in with the pack mentality here on APC. Of course the fact that some of these guys were 300 hour wonders themselves, trying to pull the ladder up in a desperate bid to increase the pay that they agreed to when they went to their first airline is the thing most miss when reading these posts. This would frankly be sad if it weren't so predictable in the 121 world.
Originally Posted by disgusted pilot
(Sign on for lo pay, ***** about it, blame someone else, get behind a reactionary law that isnt about safety at all, and hope your pay instantly doubles. Is this the new regional career progression????
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Yeah that ^