Mr. Monkey, don't be sorry at all. I am not naive enough to think 250/25 hours is a whole lot of instruction. To be fair, Pinnacle came here and chose to hire those individguals; UND didn't pay them to make a trip out here, nor were they obligated too under any contracts or anything like that.

I'm glad your experiances have served you well, but if you really think that others will instruct (or whatever they are doing to build time) until they feel they have enough experiance to move on to the regionals, your only fooling yourself. Most are just there to build the minimum amount of time they need to move on (If Pinnacle wouldn't have picked up those few instructors, they would still be here sitting right seat in their little Warrior). It really falls on the airlines to hire the most experianced pilots out there, which was the point I intended to make-you can't blame the kid for taking the job offered to him, or turn him the scapegoat for your low pay. You never did answer my question - are your telling me that you would have turned down the opportunity to sit right seat at a regional with 560/50?