Originally Posted by
DarkSideMoon
I didn’t “demean” them, I’m pointing out a poor study/research habit that will cause a lot of pain in this career. I was a little curt maybe, because I’m tired of running into unhappy pilots who didn’t do their research and ended up someplace incompatible with their life. I also didn’t say they were lazy, I said they were being lazy. OP may be the hardest working person on the planet for all I know, but asking easily found questions instead of taking the time to click a few threads and read is a lazy action. If I didn’t care I wouldn’t have taken the time to respond at all.
Well the information may be available elsewhere, but I imagine when this forum was started it was with the vision of a place where pilots new to the profession as well as older veterans could come together and learn from each other and share some camaraderie. Any forum I’ve ever been a part of has a tendency to have the same topics come up again and again. It’s just the nature of the beast. Most of the time when that happens new insights are provided, especially given that things change rapidly in the regional airline industry. It’s very flavor of the month.
What is also part of the regional industry is a high percentage of 20 somethings running around pumped full of testosterone and acting like some kind of JR high school look-at-me bully. You aren’t being helpful by telling someone their question is stupid, or telling them that they aren’t cut out for the industry because they asked a question.
The reality of this profession is that anyone of average intelligence can do this job. There is no system in place to reward you for your superior pilot skills. There is a system in place to try and weed out A holes though. You can go much farther in this industry by going out of your way to be polite than you ever can with Chuck Yeager piloting ability. Just trying to help you out and offer some advice that will help you in your career.
Sometimes I see a thread that has been covered and I’m not interested so I move on. Sometimes I skim through and learn something new. This is even more true when someone is asking for opinions, which the OP did. Perceptions change in this industry almost daily. Just cut the guy some slack.