Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Muushin is pretty rough on you guys, but frankly some of the pilots at mesa (and a few other airlines these days) are more PFT switch monkey than professional pilot.
A pro pilot has some judgement and experience, usually earned the hard way, whereas some low-timers simply don't get it, and are too immature, self-absorbed, or stupid to learn from others. Simply being able to perform flows in a non-motion RJ sim does not make a "real" pilot.
There are also low-time pilots who are very sincere and humble, and dedicated to learning everything they possibly can, as fast as they can...they will be fine in the long term.
Mesa has some real pilots, and some not-so-real pilots.
Exactly if you have the dough/financing some brain cells and can PFT. You can become an airline pilot in a
short amount of time. Mesa may come and go but until the CREWS/ALPA begin to inform the public at a massive scale what pilot pay is truly like, then there will always be an ample supply of "qualified candidates" applying for jobs in the 20K range. The ample supply of "qualified candidates" is what
suppresses wages across the board. (don't even get me started on so called pilot shortages) Look at the legacies you've got guys over 30 yrs +, wife and kids to support and 4K to 5K hours of experience all applying for jobs that won't even break 60K even after 2 yrs service.
One of the biggest factors goes back to college. 19yr old kid can go to college have fun flying piston planes and make (what he thinks is big money at the legacies in no time) or he can sit thru some traditional boring courses spend 6 years to get a masters or 8 for a doctorate to make a salary. It becomes a no brainer 4 yrs of fun (or 1 yr at ATP) vs 6 to 8 of boredom.