Good Points, and glad you're civil about it Clear. Hopefully my upgrade will come soon once we aquire a few of these new jets. I've been here 1.5yrs in april. So the pay increases are more than adequate. It's a smaller town area, in po-dunk indiana. I grew up here, so that's part of it for me. The other is I love freight flying. We do pax work also, but every time I do it, 9 of 10 I hate the flight.

I agree, the other operations out there need to bump their pay if they are going to keep getting quality people, not just the throw-backs. We're having that problem with the last 5 applicants having the requirements, but just not having that skill to fly single-pilot all-weather.

Just curious, what's the "bad habits for life" that 135 can give you???? I know since I've done this, my CRM skills have deteriorated since I am the only pilot. I compare it to the early CFI skills, when you train someone, its hard to let them screw it all up. So now I don't mind as much when a trainee or prospect flies, because I make them file their own flight plans, takes at least that part off me responsibility wise. Other than that, I fly like I've always flown.