Originally Posted by JMT21
Your telling me that you would have turned down the opportunity to sit right seat at a regional with 560/50? How can you say that some kid is dragging the industry down by simply accepting a job? I'll buy into the PFT guys not doing the industry any favors, but please, these guys were neither PFT or academy grads. I can also assure you that these guys all had their CFI tickets and had instructed to get about half that time (250/25).
Oh Im soooooo sorry for my previous remark... why what ever was I thinking I mean wow 250 hours and 25 of multi is a huge amount of instruction given I mean that must make you like qualified to be like the chief instructor of your 141 school or something. (and just in case you didnt notice Im being sarcastic) If you look at Nwairlink.com it says 1400 tt and 200 multi for everybody else..... And what 250 hours of dual given is what perhaps 5 pvt/comm/instr students and 1 multi student? sorry but thats not a whole lot of experience. Now lets look at this from a managment perspective (oh if I were the CEO for a day....) At this point I'm saying to myself I have these low time pilots who by all right full means should still be in the right seat of a 172 like all their other peirs telling people to watch their alt./ hdg. and begging not to be be smacked in... instead they have a nice plush right seat in my jet. So from my point of view since they are not a qualified as everyone else they are not yet professionals. SO they should just be greatful to have the right seat in my jet and why should I have to pay them? I guess I shouldn't and since I can discriminate amongst low and high time FO's I guess I will have to pay all FO's the same so I guess that means a CRAP pay scale for ALL FO's. WOW what a benefit for me..... guess I'll get that bonus this year.....
Food for thought... As for me Im glad I got atleast some real experience it has served me well.... and I hope others will either come to their senses and do the same or there will be a hard set of hiring minimums put into effect that will force them to do so........