Originally Posted by
Timbo
in the snow!
All year! 🤣👍
But seriously, none of the young new hires today ever flew flight engineer, doing EVERY walk around, in the snow, both ways, and on the B Scale. There has never in the airline history been as good an environment to be hired into than today, with new hires getting into the right seat of the highest paying wide bodies, and getting 767 Captain bids in their first year or two.
I’m happy for them, but it’s not at all “normal” career progression that anyone from 10-40 years ago went through.
No, they flew turboprops and underpowered RJs with no autothrottle and no ability to climb above the weather in the ice for 5+ legs a day. Then they overnighted at a Holiday Inn Express in Fargo for 12 hours and did it all again the next day.
And those who came before you were the real men who wrestled DC6 and Connies. You jet kids were soft yet all you do is complain. /s
See how that works?