Originally Posted by Punkpilot48
But how many people getting ready to start learning how to fly read these forums?
PFT is a topic that comes up in almost every thread. Obviously WE know its a problem. But do they? I would not have. And I would not have known I was wasting money. I would have probably gotten sold into everything. Luckily I did not. Luckily.
Personally, an investment of that caliber would cause me to do a little reseach on the topic. Hell, I spent a month researching where to do my CFI. Captains have minimum requirements under both 135 and 121, why not make a minimum (which is lower) for SIC? If that's too extreme, just keep educating the starry-eyed ones on these fourms. Don't come off as a crusty, angry furloughee who blames everybody under the sun for their company's ****-poor management. Posts of this nature don't achieve anything positive for you, or the newbies who we're trying to mentor/advise/whatever you want to call getting them on our side. Unity goes a long way my friends. Stop fighting to win the battle and fight to win the war.
And before you PFTers start trying to flame me, I'm a low time guy too. I just want to make more as a pilot than a Burger King manager(I don't think that's too much to ask). Paying off big debt on regional FO pay isn't going to get anybody anywhere. Respect your fellow pilots, respect yourselves and realize that it takes a lot of training to do this job, you should be paid accordingly. Greyhound drivers carry fewer people, in equipment that requires little training (a CDL isn't hard to get) and have a much higher fatality rate than any regional pilot and yet they're making more. Think about it.