Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
The amazing thing is those current pat scales are, inflation adjusted, exactly what I started out at in 1980 flying a Citation and 5 years later at Eastern as a F/E. Stop beotching, you’re no worse off than your father was back in the day. No, you won’t own a house, have a retirement plan financed TODAY, but give it 30+ years and you will just like I did. And I did it flying military and civilian, no 300k airline jobs. Today is, bar none, the best period to be a pilot in 60 years.
GF
What about flight training costs? Flight training is significantly more expensive today than it was in 1980, even considering inflation. The education cost has skyrocketed, rents in most cities have skyrocketed, and yet the starting wage is the same and still below respectable.