Originally Posted by
Aquaticus
Pre far 117 and the 8 hr overnight (block in to show) in some dump in the middle of nowhere to fly 5 leg 6 hr day with a cat rancher / mentally ill flight attendant and a captain who was too eccentric to get a better gig only to get to do a 10 hr overnight in the butthole of Texas that night... regional flying was really hit or miss but when it missed it would change your perspective of this career.
Yeah, I’ve got years worth of those stories, too. Yet I’m still here & so are you. So either we were too stupid to do anything about it, or it wasn’t/isn’t actually THAT bad.
Possibly some some combination of the two, in my case...