Originally Posted by SkyHigh
Lastly, of course, a lot in aviation depends upon if you make it to the majors. To you flying is a joyful and perhaps painless ride. Most likely you went strait from the military to a major and never went a week without a pay check. Your career was probably made before you even took your first lesson. What isn't to like about that? Everyone gets a few breaks in life and I never held it against my friends who had fathers who were well positioned at a major. The rest of us don't have it so good and suffer. It is almost a closed system.
SkyHigh
skyHigh, I'm beginning to believe that you just have a burr under your saddle for anyone who happened to acheive employement at a major airline. I hate to burst your bubble, but not all pilots who made it to a major were military zoomies, nor were they children of major airline pilots. Some of those who made to a major followed the same career path as did yourself. I know many who started out getting beat up in a Metroliner, Bandit, B1900, Junkstream, etc. They had neither a military background nor a major airline family member to help them out. Yet you drone on along, nursing your disdain for pilots who made it to the majors as if not ONE of them was worthy of the job. The difference between them and yourself would seem to be that they made good contacts, networked, MAINTAINED A POSITIVE ATTITUDE, and perservered until the breaks came there way.