Originally Posted by
MaxQ
Personal opinion.
Once a person decides to take that chief pilot position, or any other non-flying position at an airline for that matter, they slowly stop being a pilot. While they would be deeply offended by such an assertion, and can validly claim exposure to different areas of knowledge than a line pilot, the fact is they are really no longer a full time professional pilot. They are not out in the mud, the blood and the beer. Their daily tussles are of a different, more bureaucratic sort.
I am not saying it's wrong. If that floats somebodies boat, power to them. But it is a decision to leave the arena.
Personal opinion of my own.
Tht point is well taken, couldn’t it also be said that one needs to be the change they want to see? Instead of sitting around and “hoping” for a pilot friendly CP or similar to get hired into a vacancy, why doesn’t one step up and do the hard work themselves? Pretty easy to sit back and complain from the trenches, and this is not directed at anyone in particular, but I’d posit that it’s harder to step up and be the guy / gal to say “I’ll do it, I’ll keep the culture going or work to improve it.”
As pilots we love to ***** about it, how many are ready to put their chips down to actually do a damn thing about it.