Originally Posted by
UCLAbruins
Oh my friend, sit down and get comfortable, its gonna be a loooooooooong journey. You've joined the other 15,000 regional pilots with the same goal and aspirations.
At first you are happy and upbeat. You're flying a turbine powered airplane with passengers in the back. You're thinking, hum I'm going to be one of those fortunate guys who goes to a major from the right seat, won't even have to upgrade. 5 years later, perhaps a Captain then, you're thinking, where exactly did I go wrong, what the hell was I thinking, this is not what the brochure said. Get me out of this dump.
Been there, done that, got 3 shirts. Thank God NetJets picked me up, otherwise I would be on suicide watch just about now.......
I can already relate. I was single and carefree when I started this dream 5 years ago. I thought it would be great to go to different cities everyday and "see the world." So far I have seen airport terminals, hotel rooms, and sleeping in crew rooms. It is really crappy other than the time I'm in the cockpit flying, that has been awesome. Now I've got a wife and a child and being away 4 or 5 days at a time isn't the same dream it was 5 years ago. So now I get to come on here and complain with everyone else. Yeah