Originally Posted by
bedrock
How is flying passengers in one type of airliner, entry level, but in another type in EXACTLY the same manner and environment, it isn't? If you fly 50 seats four legs or 200 seats one leg, the amt. of seats being flown are the same. The speeds, destinations, skill-set and responsibility are all the same. The job of airline pilot is not an entry level job. No one should be entry level at 500 knots at FL350. An FO is not an apprentice, and has to be ready and able to fly and do everything single handed if the captain is incapacitated. Entry level jobs don't require years of experience and training and don't require that level of responsibility. The reason for the 1500 hr rule is so that airline pilot will never be considered an entry level job again. The act of flying is easy because we do it so much, and it's so easy an Airbus fell out of the sky due to a minor malfunction and gross pilot error. It's so easy, a major airline stalled onto the runway at SFO and killed people in perfect weather.
Yea managemt will bust out their violin for you. They don't care if you can kill a bunch of people, they are insured, and they don't care about you. You are just a number and a warm body on their chess board. If the could, they would pay you minimum wage. You only get what you negotiate. The problem is NOT them, the problem is with YOU! US! We are are own worst enemy. Look at how we treat each other, pilots are their own worst enemy. There's so much ego and BS that we can not get over eacther in order to come to unity. The only unity is at places like Fedex where they are congratulationg eacther on making 200k. The rest of us in the trenches, it's Everyman for himself. We need to change that, you need to look at the other guys interest before yours. That's unity!!! You think that will ever happen? Good luck.