Originally Posted by
Sunvox
My potentially incorrect information was that becoming an LCA was more about who you know rather than what you know, but the current times have turned that paradigm upside down. Now senior pilots (myself included) have no desire to work harder as an LCA even if more money was offered because I want to work as little as possible and I think more and more pilots are beginning to share that feeling.
Unless someone really wants to teach, I don’t think that most will consider the hourly override to be worth what the job requires, especially while we hire at max capacity. Once they fill your schedule with students you lose the ability to trade for better trips, drop trips, move days around, etc. Picking up a 1 or 2 day trip will pay as much as a full month of LCA override with a lot less work.