Originally Posted by
sflpilot
Well you will probably be in the 145 for the rest of your airline career, but that is the fault of nobody else but the pilots. Most of the routes you will fly are really mainline routes anyway. So it's gonna be just like mainline except for the pay. But what the h**l, you're flying a jet.
Exactly, I'll be flying a jet. Before all of you folks bash me and say I have SJS, let me explain some things. I flight instructed for 2 1/2 years. I have flown a piston twin as PIC under part 135. I have flown King Airs as a corporate executive jockey. The jet time, mostly just the PIC jet time, is just the next thing I'll need to round out my resume before I'll be competitive at someplace like FedEx or UPS. I have never intended to make a career at the regionals, and I'm going to keep my eyes fixed on the destination rather than the daily crap and circumstances. There are lots of people that I will have to compete with for those jobs that I want, and turboprop time in a King Air just isn't competitive. For some, the regional career is right. For me, it is extremely short-sighted. I have never wanted to sell myself short of my dream and my goal, and I'm not going to start now. As far as I'm concerned, I'm just taking the next step. So if you want to call it SJS, then feel free. Oh, and btw, I paid for all of my own flight training, and I have NO loans to pay. It's all about attitude folks. Plain and simple. You can keep a good attitude and keep looking forward, or you can talk about who gave up scope on what airplane, and what pilot is accelerating the race to the bottom. Just leave me out of the negative part.