Originally Posted by SkyHigh
I think he was just trying to help. Sometimes you gotta let go for a while. I have a few ex-coworkers who are at Tradewinds and they hate it to a huge degree. They are gone all the time and don't get paid much at all. Perhaps you should call everyone you know outside of aviation and do something else for a while? The first few days hurt like a MF but it gets better slowly. I have been sidelined for almost three years now and I am very glad I didn't allow myself to be tempted by any fly by night operators.
SKyHigh
Thats not completely true. I dont where you get fly by night since TDX has been around since 1967. On the 747 we are on the 2 weeks on 2 weeks off sked and I have to be gone more than 15 days. Skeds arent that bad but the flying down in South America gets old real quick. Pay is avg for the ACMI operators but I will say it is very low for overall 747 opeartors but then again I get $3/hr for per diem and that is continous. (I make more per diem in a month than a Mesa f/o makes on salary.) Plus a $10/hr override for each hour flown. Dont have to worry about a crash pad since all hotels are picked up.
I am not a company cheerleader but TDX is not the best place to work and its not the worst. If you need a place to hang you hat for a while til you move on or get recalled, there are worse places to be.