Originally Posted by
bluefishbeagle
Here's a new hire profile 2000-2007:
fresh out of collage and flight training
heavily in debt to either the bank of american or the bank of "momanddad"
expects to be in the left seat of a jet within three years or less
gets the interview and is informed he will have to pay for training "no problem" "gulp"
makes it though flight training and IOE (i never said they were dummies)
is so happy to be flying a big shinny jet that they pinch themselves every three minutes
they are fresh fodder for airline management
they call crew schdulers "sir" or "mam" without knowing they have half the education and 1/1000th the training and their previous job was at the big "D" (not not delta dummy, mcdonalds)
they trust "their company" to keep them out of trouble with the feds
they know nothing about duty regs, flight time, reduced rest, etc, etc,etc, and don't care
for the smart ones it's takes about six months to figure out how they've been screwed, for the rest it takes two years. too late brother!
they then hope and pray they can get upgrade and get the "1000 hours pic" before they get canned or busted by the feds.
the lucky ones make it out the rest are just fodder in the regional grinding mill.
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by the way who is skyhigh?
I haven't been a member here for very long, but that does sound very SkyHigh like, lol.