Originally Posted by
DontCallMeCindy
Lemme get this straight—you want to be paid your 90 hour instructor guarantee, on Captain pay, without having the same FOM or FAR mandated required flight hours as a line pilot? And without having to go fly that seat/accept that level of responsibility on your two flight days each month?
You seem to be forgetting (or unaware) why you’re capped at two days of flying a month. You get to be effectively based in MCO completely out of seniority order, and you get to VDA/RSA/do your two flying days out of MCO as well, also out of seniority order. Meanwhile, a line pilot 4000 numbers senior to you can’t pickup a seat support, or simply bid into an instructor role.
And, once we hold a reserve CA seat in someplace like JFK, we actually have to commute up there and sit reserve to get our CA check. You don’t.
Given the above compromises, I think I’d be careful what I wish for when it comes to disrupting the current system in place. If I recall, you’re able to go to the line/adjunct if you need the hours to upgrade, right?
Once you upgrade and commute to JFK like you said you lose the ability to be an instructor/adjunct. Why? Because they don’t want to pay CA rates for adjuncts and full timers. So guys get instructor jobs, stay down in MCO, eventually upgrade on paper get CA pay while being based in Orlando. I say this as a 7yr MCO FO. I would not want the system changed if I were an IP.
Instructors do work hard, but it’s really hard to see the resounding negatives.