Originally Posted by rickair7777
The PFT folks come in on an airline seniority list with no clue; they go through their learning process while earning seniority ahead of the CFI's and while driving down the compensation of the industry as a whole. additionally they are willing to work at any airline that will hire them, while CFI's tend to be morte selective (I know some who refuse to take a job at Mesa, even after they were rejected by SKW).
Management is very adept at feeding the fears of the inexperienced with threats of doom, gloom, furloughs, slow upgrade, etc.
I'm no PFT nor CFI, but how many folks have the PFT'ers brought with them.
100 PFT's=100 pilots/ 100 CFI's=500? 600? 1000? new pilots..To me this seem's where the overload in pilots come from.
This industry needs a fix, attacking one group for "bringing down the profession woes" gets us nowhere.. I don't have any answers anyone else??
Rofzu.
