Originally Posted by
V1 Cut and Run
After a few months of retirement, I started giving some thought to applying to a regional airline, because I truly wanted to experience PROFESSIONAL flying. Although I flew for a corporate flight department that was run very professionally, I truly wanted to experience 121 flying.
So you decided to screw some young pilot trying to break out of flight instructing at $10 an hour so you can have a "hobby job." How very professional of you.
Originally Posted by
V1 Cut and Run
Call me an stupid, but I for one believe that WE can turn this industry around. But folks, here's a muppet news flash for you...we can't do it without the support of the public we fly for. If we continue to argue on whether we like to wear hats while we look slovenly in public, if we want to argue whether or not we deserve tips, if we are seen and heard *****ing about our wages and work conditions in public, and if we want to stick knives in the backs of other pilots because they don't work for a company that conforms to our way of thinking, we will continue to lose the support of the public.
I've got a muppet news flash for you ---- the public could care less about pilots as long as the ticket is cheap. You naivety is stunning in thinking that how a hat is worn will influence management. The corporate execs are in this business for ONE REASON ONLY and that is to siphon as much money out of it for themselves as possible. They less they pay you, the more they put in their own pocket.
Originally Posted by
V1 Cut and Run
Want a simple test of your professionalism? How many kids on your flights look up to you, and want to do what you're doing?
I actively and strongly discourage interest by young people in commercial aviation and encourage it for military aviation. Like Capt Sullenburger and for the same reasons. The steep deterioration in the compensation and working conditions encouraged by so-called "professional" pilots like you that are willing to work for truck driver compensation is largely responsible for it. So look at yourself in the mirror first before you accuse me of being "unprofessional."
Originally Posted by
V1 Cut and Run
Me, I joined firstly because I love flying, and will until the day I die. If I have to work two jobs to continue flying, so be it. If I have to wear a stupid hat, I'm OK.
Being a "hobby" pilot yourself, I wouldn't expect you to understand, but the vast majority of pilots do this for primary income and their families depend on it. Management stooges like you that will fly for almost free contribute more to 10 fold more to the deterioration of the profession than someone with a well worn hat.
So, Mr. Hobby Job, don't preach to me.