I am chiming in here as well that I would love to go to the airlines but can't take that much of a hit in pay and QOL. Ballpark, I would need to make QXE 2nd year CAPT pay to start to keep things going. In the meantime, I am headed to C-12's/BE20T's for the Guard and will get my fix that way while paying things down to maybe be able to live off of 1st year pay sometime down the line.

I am glad the video brought up pay and the dude had the balls to say so. I hope the main point of that "there is no pilot shortage, just a shortage of qualified folks willing to work for less than McDonald's wages" keeps getting hammered into the public.

This is still coming to a head and something is going to have to give. I think we as a national pilot group have and will continue to stand united. Keep up the fight, guys!