Originally Posted by
JetPipeOverht
CareerCFI, with a name like this, and your intended inclusion of being that of a non-CA ( with no hopes of ever being one in the 121 Field ) Who are you to make such bold statements about thousands of pilots you've never/will never fly with ? What kind of a man sits back at the computer and throws such disparaging remarks about the state of the industry, when even Skyhigh is of the belief that if you can get through training/IOE you deserve to be there.
It is a waste of time to even respond to your attack on me here. My response to your next insult will clear it up. Just ask yourself, what kind of a man does not report to people like you? I owe you nothing, nada. I do not depend on your gracious acceptance. Neither financially, nor emotionally. If I ever will - you can watch me commit suicide. Promise!
I'll sell the tickets to it and donate the proceeds to a charity of your choice.
I feel ashamed to call you a brethern at this point and I can only hope you're not making some convoluted connection to what happened in BUF last night to the state of the industry.
You
should feel ashamed of calling me anything, Mr. Professional! What a poor attempt to use me as a scape goat for your grief and to try to make some sicktwisted connection to this terrible accident last night. Your simple suggestion (or hopefullness) tells me that I am well off where I am, at least I am not surrounded tasteless people like you, in apparent need of pushing the "tear up button" on the death of 50 people on
someone elses back. Disgusting show of character! I do hope to god people read your comment with an open mind, once they see through you, they will drop you like a foul fruit. You
are bad news and it is shameful to even have to respond to someone trying to pull such a low level on another pilot.
As stated multiple times by almost everyone on this forum, we're all here to do a job and to do it safely. There is no need for Grey Hairs to ' beat the sense into us ' and tell us not to chew gum in the cockpit. It is no ones fault that the state of the industry is such as it was whenever a pilot gets hired, and no one should be put under scrutiny because of this. When airlines hire, they hire, you jump on if/when you can. For someone to say that the level of what a PAX is getting for the same price of a ticket is less now than it was before, is pig-headed at best, and I only hope some day you wake up from such a dillusion of the mind.
I simply stated that it is time for some people to come of their high horses. There are no rights. The
best qualified FO deserves to sit there, not necessarily somone who has made it through 3 months of training.
If 3 months of training are qualification enough to fly an airline loaded with hundreds of people, so be it. I don't fly airlines and the few I choose, if I absolutely have to, do not yet subscribe to this newsletter...
Since I travel long distances I almost never see cockpits with very young or inexperienced pilots. For anything in the U.S. except AK I prefer to either fly myself or (believe it or not) take and prefer the car for this very simple reason. I and many more boycot any and all regionals associated or in a preferred hiring contract with anyone. It's crooked, I know, but, I pay, I say.
The industry is what it is, mainly because some people love to do a job for next to nothing, while others elect to have well compensated careers. So, with all due respect, other than smiling, and explaining and talking and joking, what has Captain Sullenberger done for
your profession? He was and is a much needed hero, we needed something good to happen in all this mud and corruption and the stupid mindless powergames.
I need to change my username, to something that does not insult people so much, maybe "numbumaccepteverythingandneverspeakup" then I could lurk and get insulted just for being a member of this holier than thou clubby. Sorry for posting.