Originally Posted by
Mobiusixi
Also accepted into this program. I am not trolling, what would be the point?
My confusion lies with the, "You didn't spend 10 years at a regional, so you won't have the experience".
In my early days when I was trying to get my private pilots licence right out of high school. I worked as a fueler for United's contractor as I knew it was the best way into the cockpit and talk with pilots. I fueled thousands of United express ERJs and others.
I always imagined at the time these pilots had years of experience but I was surprised early on to learn most of them were put behind the controls of these planes with 250 hours or a hair above.
My point being I suppose, they didn't get replaced with more experienced pilots when the crosswinds we're gusting at 30 knots or when an engine faluire occured.
Why can't I, assuming I pass the course, be the SIC on an E190 at 1500 hours?
The devaluing of pilots may hold true, but the expirence thing throws me for a loop.
Please understand, I'm not at all trying to be a jerk, I'm trying to understand at least this aspect of the aggression towards this program.
Every generation of pilots resents the generation after them because the had it easier than they did. The generation before us had to spend years sitting sideways as an FE before they got a seat at the controls of an airliner, and so on and so forth.
Most of us had to spend a decade or more just to get into that E190 FO seat at JetBlue. It makes us angry to see someone else come along, plop down $125k, and bypass those years of living in the trenches of the industry trying to build flight time while eating ramen noodles and living in run down crashpads.