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Old 06-27-2007 | 07:50 AM
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stickwiggler
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Originally Posted by Paok
The only thing I have to say is.....the minimums are WHAT THEY ARE now, theres nothing you can do to change that..... Isn't it fair for people to take advantage of that and fly for a regional. Are you saying that if 10 regionals lowered the mins to below 800 when YOU HAD 800 hours, that you would have turned them down and said NO, I am going to fly my 152 for another 600 hours.......... You cannot blame people for taking advantage of the minimums right now (I am not talking about places like mesa, etc...) But there are respectable regionals with lower mins.... I am sorry that the mins were not this low when you got hired, but stop beating up on those of us who happened to catch the industry at the right time......We can't control that! Thats my 2 cents
Paok,

Of course I would have jumped on them. Not only do I not fault you for it, if we were introduced through friends I will tell you get your stuff in TODAY because seniority is everything.

With that said, I hope that my years of flying in the Army would have instilled in me one of the most important lessons that a young aviator can learn:

NEVER MISS A QUALITY OPPORTUNITY TO SHUT THE F%*K UP"

Seriously, it's not the fact that you get the job with low time, it's the sense of entitlement and attitude. As you said, you caught the industry at the right time, but the job hasn't changed. Crews and passengers still have the same expectations as when you needed several thousand hours to get hired.

Meanwhile, the performance level of a newhire has changed dramatically. Even that would be o.k. if they realized it, but many don't. Maybe I'm just an old fart and it's a generational thing, but it seems many suffer from "over confidence".

You sound like a reasonable guy, and probably don't fit into that catergory, I waste the key strokes just to give you, and other young pilots an insight to what the guy/gal sitting in the left seat might be going through.

Stick
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