Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
I'm paying plenty of attention, you just don't seem to like being called on what you've posted.
But please, take "points off" if it makes you feel better about yourself; I'm not the one trolling the regional board claiming how much more difficult and dangerous my job is...
Sigh.
Your post:
You've claimed your job is harder. More dangerous. More stressful. You've gone so far to say regional pilots lose the "bigger schwartz" contest all day - and they're the ones that are arrogant? YGBSM!
Having never flown widebodies internationally, I say you're job isn't any harder, any more dangerous, any more stressful, than somebody flying an RJ or a Saab domestically in the US. Here's why:
The dangers and the risks in the two radically different types of flying (as the job itself - airplane Point A to Point B unscratched, is the exact same) differ greatly, but there's no way to quantify one being any "harder" or "easier" than the other because they are so different. One leg 8-12 hours with an augmented crew provides different issues and different risks than 6-8 legs per day. An issue you have with widebody flying is landing currency & proficency; an issue regional pilots have is complacency due to doing the same thing (up and down) over and over and over again.
It'd be really great if people could drop the f'in airline vs. military vs. corprate and regional vs. mainline crap and just acknowledge each segment of the industry is DIFFERENT - not any better or worse or harder or easier than another...
Once again. The original poster to which I was responding claimed that a 777 position was no different than flying 7 legs a day back and forth in the US. It indeed is different. They are not the same job. Then all the regional egomaniacs started chiming in with how tough it is to fly a saab, blah,blah,blah. Been there, done that. The jobs are not the same, do not justify the same pay. End of story. The rest is just fluff.