Not to bash on lakes, or say another regional is better than other because i am staring at stagnation and an uncertain future at Eagle! Lakes is a place where you go do your time get T-Pic and get out to bigger and better things, but with that said let's say you upgrade with around 2,000 hrs and then get your self 1,000 T-Pic... Now what? There are a lot of RJ captains out there who has 1,000s of T-Pic and a lot of these guys who were hired in the late 90's or early 2000's are young enough to make a move, they too have time in smaller turbo props like an SF340 but also have time in sophisticated aircraft! Must of these guys needed 1,000s of hours to be hired at their regionals so they have a better resume. With that in mind, US Airways has done limited hiring this year and the average new hire has 5K T-Pic! Not to bash you guys but in this competitive environment what does 1000 hrs on aircraft that is a transport category do for me?

You guys have to become good sticks or you die, plain and simple... But with the aircraft you fly now in days there is more to it than just stick and rudder! Pushing buttons it's easy once you know what you are doing and the reasoning behind the system! Most at Lakes will be captain before most of us at other regionals but one has to ponder what do 3K TT & 1K T-Pic in a 1900 get you these days. I agree wingtips is being a little over the top, I am not sure what she gets by acting like this (I normally agree with her).