I did go to college I, I went to Rutgers College which is a great school. I double majored in African American History, & US History as well as a minored in Sociology. All of you guys make good points, I dont deny Colgan is the quicker way to achieve the 1,000PIC Turbine goal, however upgrade for me is still around 1 1/2 to 2 years based on the number of FO's ahead of me and the rate at which Colgan is currently upgrading. Some of you guys seem to miss the point that the reason Colgan in the past has upgraded so quickly is becuase they doubled their fleet of SAABS, are they getting more? I believe soo but not much more. Upgrades have been slowing a good deal. CA's make around 40ish, they do not make perdiem, I undertsand its more than I will be making at XJT (initially), however there are quite a few CA's that have been at Colgan for 3-5 years and its nearly impossible for them to make 55-60k if they do they are probably TDYing all over the place and working on their days off. You guys say I am bashing Turbo-prop guys I havent said a thing about Skywest or Peidomont becuase they are great Companies, Colgan is an ok company, and how you people can argue with me on that is crazy. The people at Colgan which I say over and over agian are awesome, the pilots are probably the greatest bunch of guys Ill ever get to fly with, but that does not change the fact that the airline itself is guilty of some shady operations, has anybody else (after the 1900 went down in HYA) had the experience of the superb MX guys once again reverseing the trims after a heavy check? At Colgan it has happened AGIAN but the pilots caught it this time. Colgan is notorious for that and if they were'nt they would not be on a "no Fly" list for such companies ay NETJETS and Citation shares (When they have to commute they have to take other airlines and COLGAN is on the list that the company can not make them travel on because they are "dangerous") Just a fact a very embarresing one but a fact none the less. To all you guys at Colgan I wish YOU the best I really do you guys take it so personally I am not bashing the pilots group just the company. (and I really am not "bashing" them just shedding some light on my experiences there. And Expressjet according to you may not be a "real airline" well if you never get picked up at a major youll be 40 making 50k a year on a SAAB and if I never get picked up at least I will be making enough to live on, oh and I won't have to tell people that the airplane I fly has Propellers on it hahaha j/k