Originally Posted by Punkpilot48
Couple of questions.... (and ya'll know I'm not a PFTer)
1. How does a newbie build up to 135 mins if he doesnt want to CFI?
2. If buying typing ratings is bad why do so many southwest pilots do it?
3. Why wouldnt a major hire a PFTer? If they meet the competitive mins at a major isn't the "drama" many many hours behind them?
4. Rick, dont you ever want to talk about something other than aviation?
5. Don't pilots ever get tired of bashing every othe pilot? I don't expect us all to get a long. But most guys on the forum forget that we are all the "other team" If my airline is doing well it means another one probably isn't. Not that I want to go put other people out a job. But I want to keep mine. That's capitalizm. Pepsi or Coke?
6. Who can come up with the next cool topic where PFT SJS and Scabs doesnt come into the thread? And, where have you been?
1. Probably CFI.
2. I agree. That's why I don't work for SWA. And if you have a 737 type on your cert with no operational experience, some other majors REALLY don't like that...they assume you tried to PFT into SWA, and got rejected....try to explain that to CAL or AS.
3. They do hire PFTers, if they have something else going for them. But many major airline pilots resent it, and if you meet one of those guys on your CA board, you might as well have stayed home.
4. Beer and classic VW's, but those are other forums.
5. This is true. I want to discourage new pilots from doing PFT in most cases, but I don't run around despising most of those who did. Many didn't know any different. But I do get spun up when they start defending it with uninformed rants. Like I said before, where are all the ex-PFT major airline pilots? Speak Up!