And you Jet pilot. Joined yesterday huh? First post huh?

First off you obviously don't know where I'm getting my info from because you refer to it as second hand. I don't consider it second hand when it comes from the owner, DO, mechanics etc. of the company in question.

Second off, I went to Florida with a King Air for a month last winter. Sat on the beach all day, drank beer, and got paid to do it. Not exactly my definition of getting "stranded."

As far as "move on or starve," that's a line of BS. If NCAI doesn't pay a living wage then how was it that I have been able to buy a house on a lake, a car, and an old fishing boat all on my NCAI pay?

I agree with you that the owners are decent people, probably about the best you'll meet in this business. When you say that they pay their pilots as little as they can I think you're wrong. Am I going to get rich at NCAI? Of course not. But I honestly believe that my pay reflects what NCAI can afford to pay me. It's a small company, nobody is getting rich, including upper management.

And I honestly don't even know what you're trying to say with that last line. Are you saying I'm at the bottom of the food chain because I work at NCAI? If so then I'm happy to be there. I've got a job, I'm making good money, and I love going to work every day. More than what I can say for a lot of people these days. Or maybe you're saying that I'm at the bottom of the food chain at NCAI? If that's the case then that shows just how much you know about the company. If you looked at my profile you would see that I'm a King Air driver, which puts me on the upper end of the food chain at NCAI.

Now if you will excuse me I've got to go set up a dummy user name so I can get back on this thread and back myself up.