Originally Posted by FlyJSH

I honestly feel sorry for the guys who were downgraded or may be in the future. To finally think you have eaten your last pack of ramen only to go back to FO pay s#cks.

To the rest of you folks who feel you got screwed by the SLI, I respectfully suggest you start to get over it. A delay to the upgrade you have been counting on is unfortunate, but in the big picture, that is just a bump in this road we call aviation. Consider this: the country hasn't been attacked, oil isn't worth more than platinum (for the moment), you weren't furloughed, the company didn't close, and you haven't lost your medical. Having experienced all those things in my flying career, a delayed upgrade is just that: an unfortunate delay.










So, in 2007 there were a ton of folks getting hired with VERY low times. I know, that was when I was hired. Now, some of these FOs who ended up on the short end of the SLI stick are worried about having "low time" guys move from the right seat of a mere turbo prop to the Command Throne in the Mighty Jet. What a sad joke.... at least it is to those of us who were hired to a lowly prop FO job while having more Turbine PIC time than most of our class mates TT.

Oh, and This Prop CA bid to stay right where I am. I could have held a 200 CA slot most anywhere and maybe even a junior 900 CA. Having to commute to fly a plane with an APU (the only part of a jet I envy) isn't worth it.