Originally Posted by
Laxrox43
...how about you go to a 4-year school, join AF ROTC, apply for OTS...and fly in the Military. Guaranteed gov't benefits/pension/steady paycheck from day one!!!
Bypass the regionals, and go fly for FedEx/UPS...and make all of us regional pilots jelous!
enough said...
Looked into that. Answer is because AF doesn't guarantee anything. Got a brother right now who wanted to be pushing the throttles by now but instead(5 years later) is still pushing a pen. He was promised 6 months before flight classes. 60 months later.......