Originally Posted by Roll Inverted and Pull
I did the airline pilot thing for thirty years. I know a little bit about how the pay system works. A pilot`s pay starts when the aircraft is pushed away from the gate, the pay stops when the plane comes to a stop at the gate. All of the other stuff that a pilot may do, such as planning, weather,eating crappy meals at some slop chute on the road, laying over at the old motel 6, whatever, isn`t pay time. It would be like, in the doctor example, when you are actually cutting open a patient, you are working, when the operation stops, the pay stops.
So now the 30 hour a week thing is making more sense.
Sounds like pilots are taking it in the beee hind, though, since it seems if you add up all the pre-flight, layover, post-flight, and delay stuff,
if you were getting paid from arrival-at-airport to leaving-airport,
you'd be getting more justifiable pay.
Uhhhhhhh,
SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL THE CEOs/FAA THAT PILOTS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT F UKKING PIECE OF THIS PIE.
Again,
what am I missing here?
Without doctors, there ARE no patients....no patients for the hospitals to provide rooms/lab work/xrays/CAT scans for
Without pilots, there are no passengers to fly around the country.
Of course,
patients (medicine)/passengers (airlines) are the most important. And their safety is paramount.
But again, no pilot, no takeoff.
Why this position isn't reveled is making me wanna beat somebody up.