Originally Posted by
KingAirPIC
Seriously now. We need ideas how to fix compensation and work rules to make the industry safer. There are many reasons why our ideas won't work but we need to try. This is the first time in recent memory that pilot wages are in the news in a negative light. We are actually getting press time that could help us. This could be our time to make a change even though the odds are against us.
Some people here have come up with ideas to make changes which is good to see. Obviously ideas that are posted here are not finished or fully researched answers but they are a start in the right direction. Instead of only coming up for reasons why an idea will not work we need to find alternative solutions, sometimes within the problem itself.
I'm writing to the congressman for the aviation oversight committee but he (or his staffer) will pay less attention if I just vent my issues. Ideas for solutions is what we need.
In my mind this is a big window for us and we would be stupid not to give it our best shot to make improvements.
KingAir you are EXACTLY right!!!!! NOTHING is going to change if we don't ALL come together and try and fix this problem. Those that keep saying "oh it will never work we might as well not try" just don't want to put in the work to make the industry better again like it was before 9/11. Well I for one am willing to do as much as I can to help make a change. If you could send me the name of that congressman that you were going to write, I will be right behind you in sending him some of my ideas as well. And maybe if you, and I, and Wally 24 as well as the others that actually want to try to help make this industry a great place to work again, really work at it I KNOW we can make a difference. LET'S ALL COME TOGETHER AND STOP BICKERING WITH ONE ANOTHER!!!!!!! Let's ALL make a difference and get paid for what we all love to do in the first place...FLYING!!!!!