Originally Posted by
tonsterboy5
It’s all a crapshoot, yes you want to get in as seniority is everything, but in general 3 years of seniority is the same regardless of when you join when there is constant steady movement.
If you compare two random groups of a thousand pilots with three years seniority, yes their experiences will be the same.
individual careers live and die over random, arbitrary, capricious events. For every pilot with a story about how a little bit more seniority helped them, there are zero pilots with a story about how having a little less seniority prevented a disaster. Should you skip your sister’s wedding for a class two weeks earlier? No. Should you skip you buddies wedding for a class two months earlier? Yes.