Originally Posted by SkyHigh

I am diapointed. So what? My concerns and experiences are valid. Our nations founding fathers were also disaprointed. I am sure that the Brittish considered them to be "bitter" as well.

I am not underqualified. The system changed the qualifications right out from under me. Before 911 it wasn't as much of a requirement to have turbine PIC as it is now. In the mid-1990's it was almost unheard of. There were few turbine planes to be had back then and it wasn't nessacery to have turbine PIC. My entire generation was passed over. Guys who hired on at a major airline only to be furloughed later without any turbine PIC had no place to go. It was the norm to get hired without turbine PIC.

Now at 36 and with a family in tow I am supposed to go back two steps and seek out a turbine plane someplace? Earn 20K perhaps and waste another year or two to get into the left seat and then another year or two to get the PIC? Only to discover that by then the hot thing is RJ part 121 PIC? I paid plenty of aweful and diffucult dues. I have thousands of hours of life threatening piston part 135 single pilot IFR captain time. I wasted a four year degree on the subject and many more years as a CFI.

I understand the reasonings of HR. They have to narrow down the flood of applicants somehow. My career was unfortunate. Everything I worked for is now worthless. All the years of icing up over the cascades in the middle of the night are meaningless. After all these fathful years I am unable to find a job worthy enough to support my family on. Yes I am disapointed. Why wouldn't I be?


SkyHigh