Originally Posted by
Jetlife
Yea, that damn notion that EagleJet FOs pay a buttload of money to fly in the right seat of an AMF airplane, only to be left in the FBO all day or bumped when you need to shove another 120lbs of boxes in the airplane so they then sit in the FBO overnight. I hate that too, why treat humans with decency and respect right?
Call me a troll all you want, but I am not the one spreading things that aren't true. You speak ONLY from the position of wearing rose colored glasses and you conveniently leave the details that would deter from you positively spinning every situation you write about. If anything, you are the troll.
Quite the colorful picture you paint. Let's look at the facts. The Eaglejet guys are here to build time. Last time I checked, turbine time is by no means cheap. If you run the numbers on the amount of hours the EJ guys log while here in the states, they're getting a heck of a deal.
Also, EJ pilots have made a conscious decision to come to the U.S. and pay a massive amount of money for flight time. There are other options, and no one is forcing their hand to come here and pay for flight time. For most of them, while very expensive, it is still the fastest way for them to build time and move on to their end goal (Korean Air, etc). They could have done the same as most of us and instructed, flown survey, contract work, so on and so forth, to build their time. They knew what they signed up for before they got here.