Originally Posted by
stickwiggler
You want a single reason? Here's one. Getting an airline pilot job is just too damn easy. As short as 10 years ago, a pilot would have to flight instruct for years, then go fly 135 for another year or two. Then if he didn't kill him/herself flying checks in a C401 at night single pilot with no radar, he applied (and usually paid more $) and got a job where he sat in the right seat of a turbo prop for another 2 to 3 years. Then after 5 to 7 years that pilot would go the right seat of the jet or captain in the prop.
Today.... graduate, get your license and you have a job. There is no respect for the position. What use to take years of blood sweat and tears, is now an expectation or many feel an entitlement.
rant complete.
Stick
All I was trying to say is that it was disgraceful that a pilot, someone whom should exude professionalism, would do this. Now although many people may graduate and get hired that is not the case for myself which irritates me even more. I fly into T-storms at my current job and I thoroughly respect what it took others to get to where they are in aviation. I have zero expectations for any airline to hand me a job flying shiny jets and I do not feel any sense of entitlement. Could I have gone directly to the airlines after college? Yes. Did I? No, because I agree that everyone should have to go through their own process of gaining experience and "pay their dues" before flying people around for a living.
I didn't want to anger anyone with my post and at the time I didn't think it was that naive of a question. My bad Stick.