BrewMaster -

I understood that you were talking about flying in general and that was my point - that you thought you knew it all as a presumingly low time pilot My point about the airline business was that I didn't fully appreciate the *near* requirement to build time and experience via flight instructing. I said it before on the forum here that I didn't get my instructor ratings because I didn't feel that I had enough experience to instruct (and the same holds true for FAIP/SERGRAD in the military too - there are whole threads dedicated to that subject). As for my flying....a WHOLE bunch of fun absolutely - and an amazing amount of work - much which does not involved flying!

Sorry for the thread drift. Now back on track. Btw - if you would like to talk flying hours - I started a thread in Hangar talk about that subject. Check it out. I'd like to hear from the guys on this thread.

USMCFLYR