Originally Posted by
LRSRanger
This isn't so much a bash on AMF, as on the industry as a whole. Like I can feed my kids with turbine time. However, the game is changing, and regionals are looking better and better all the time. I've got one foot out the door (thank Christ) so it doesn't really affect me, but Dallas should look long and hard at the weekly compensation vs hours worked if they want to stop the pilot hemorrhage.
So $44,000 a year isn't enough for a 20 year old pilot right at 135 mins with no turbine experience?
I never had a Wendy's job that gave me a 10 hour break in the middle of my day to go do whatever I wanted.
I get your point, and I'm not sure what base your at, but for the 18 months I was out stationed based, I hardly felt like I was truly on duty that whole time. Instead it felt like, show up, work for 3ish hours, go home, take a nap, watch tv, go fishing, whatever, back to work for 3 hours, go eat Mexican food with the gang, watch tv, fall asleep, rinse and repeat. Not bad at all.
It's all in the mindset. FORTUNATELY, my mindset is that of a young guy with no wife or kids yet, so it's all fun and games to me :-D