Yeah Carl P,

I'm right here witcha' in IMC, Vacuum failure, raw data...

Who knew that the mighty Pan Am, Eastern, and TWA would fall. Who could have predicted UAL, DAL, NWA all filing Chapter 11?

On the flip side, who would have predicted the rise of the fractionals as being some of the best places to work...?

What this shows is that we truly are "ALL IN THIS TOGETHER". When even one pilot is laid off, it devalues our entire profession and allows management to say "Hey, we have people who will PAY to do your job. This is where we get pay-for-training and foreign workers taking seats up in "ATP" programs. You couldn't get an entry-level multi job in the early nineties because of all the foreign workers taking up seats. As ERAU churned out CFI every three months, they ended up working at Taco Bell because foreigners were paying to instruct.

While this seems like a deviation to the thread, I am just telling these cautionary tales because 15 years ago doesn't seem so far behind us anymore, and it may come back to bite us...

In Unity,

B727DRVR