Originally Posted by
iFlyRC
Well, everyone bashing Mesa on here do not work for Mesa, and are repeating the same old lies.
Mesa has the lowest pay, and worst benefits. These two items are huge issues and are the biggest negatives. Do not listen to an Envoy person about Mesa, they are filled with too much hatred to ever be objective on this subject.
There are positives about Mesa, we have one of the best pilot groups in the business, where everyone is very nice and not out to back stab each other. Our chief pilot in DFW is one of the best you'll ever have in your career, management leaves you alone, and the company is excellent about not pushing you to do something questionable. I am a captain, and every FO I have flown with has had previous turbine experience with exception of a few CFI's. Our phone interview is not the interview, ground school, sim, and IOE is the interview. Mesa will give you the opportunity when others will not. I haven't had any horror stories, just people who are thankful for the opportunity. I am getting sick and tired of the lies on here about Mesa.
Really? Because I hear them on the radio in DFW everyday screwing everything up, and it's not just me. Go over to the Mesa thread and Mesa pilots posting are complaining about the same things.
I've flown with a good deal of new captains here at YV and I gotta tell you, some of those guys are complete nervous wrecks based on a lack of trust in the FO's basic flying skills (we're talking BASIC flying skills here).
Is it the FO's fault? Not always. They're trying to learn a new way of flying, in an environment that has an incredibly steep learning curve. Is it the company's fault for rushing them through training, or failing to separate from those who clearly aren't working out? Absolutely.
They're setting up for a 3407 all over again.
On the same note, is it outrageous to ask for an FO who knows how to do their job? Jesus Christ folks, we're airline pilots not cashiers. We can only do on the job training safely to a certain extent. The fact that some FOs in this industry are sitting at the pointy end of an airliner is downright frightening. Enough with letting everyone try their hand in being an airline pilot. Captains shouldn't have to be flying with someone in the right seat who is making their job harder than it would be if they were flying single pilot - competent, English speaking FOs should be the norm.
I had a Captain a few parings ago tell me,"Thank you for not scaring me." Then told me a few pretty sketchy situations with new FOs. Sucks because that increases their workload that much more having to babysit. Like being a CFI all over again.
I'm pretty sure he along with most captains would have no problem helping FO's out. I bet he is talking about the degradation of the quality of FOs coming out of training that can't even talk on the radios. No CA should have to feel like he is working single pilot up in the cockpit.
Speaking of captain's I'm getting real tired of flying with newly upgraded captain's that can't even speak ****ing English. I shouldn't have to repeat every instruction ATC gives us. That is all.