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Old 05-18-2018 | 11:08 AM
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ZippyNH
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Default Just be aware what you are signing up for....

Worked for PS for about 7 years...
They have never been about good pay, or good time to add to your logbook...
It WAS always quality of life...
But as the company grew and moved, even that became more marginal... higher utilization rates, longer days, and fewer "good" layovers made it more of just a job..the BS levels, once minimal, grew, and many folks frankly could not wait till move on.

For some people it's the right job, but it us certainly not the fast track experience wise to move up career wise, and IMO it's more like a holding pattern, and when the quality of life was great, there was nothing wrong with that....some of the flying was certainly "fun", with the occasional grass strip, and many very small (for a turboprop) marginal airports that we often operated from, struggling to keep adequate levels of customer service, having to do self service lavatory servicing (it cannot sit overnight, especially in the summer, and if there isn't an FBO), buying coffee a at DD, and poring into pots when needed and getting ice at a grocery store/gas station some AM's, you need to both be flexible, think on your feet and not be afraid to get your hands dirty.

Maybe things have changed, but the few times I have bumped into crews, it seems like it hasn't.
Hopefully the internal politics have gotten better, cause it was way too easy to get caught in the crossfire, and be considered collateral damage, and for management to find a reason to walk you to the door.
Sure, I understand that MOST of the management has changed, and I would assume most of the training department (those who can't do teach was once the motto, or so it seemed)...
Land off center on a grass strip in a pc-12 and put a plane into cornfields, you get a promotion...think the same happened after landing long and hitting a blast fence with a tailwind Bridgeport with a contaminated runway....go figure.
Sure the lawyers will ask this post be removed...
Did I mention they bought a law firm and brought it in-house, and that was when things changed?!
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