Originally Posted by
Excel
I hope you understand that you are getting real world advise from pilots who have made large sacrifices to make this career work. I think that you will find that a majority of those who have spent a few years working for peanuts at a regional or POS 135 operator will sell you the same advise. Likeways, those who are still trying to break into the industry, those who are still in the "honeymoon" stage of getting their licenses would tell you to pin your ears back and go for it. I would not get upset at the advise you are getting, it is hard to hear but you better think long and hard about how the next 10 years of your life are going to play out.... Maybe you can fly turbo props in the right seat for a 135? But even then, be prepared to have a pager stapled to your hips and having virtually every plan you try to make broken in the last minute.
I appreciate what you are saying Excel, but I tend to disagree. I have retired Delta Captain friends, current FedEx caotian friends, UPS CPT and an array of major and regional friends that keep it positive.
One of the reasons Istopped visiting APC was becaus of all the negativity I read on here. It wasnt matching up with what I was being told by people I actually know.
SO I am not mad at the advise I am just curious why if these folks say its so bad, then why do they stay in it? WHy have they stayed in it so long? Imean honestly if youread the threads on this website a good 80% is negative about the airline industry. I just never understood that. WHy are they in it if they dont like it?
I started this thread cause I was feeling low about the industry and about al that I had invested. But my stress isnt the industry itself. My stress is my age. I appreciate all the motivation I have gotten onthis board. i also appreciate all the "real" advice abotu the down side of being an airline pilot. I want it all the good bad and the ugly. But what ireally wanted to know were other options like flying for the FAA or the Fed law enforcement. thats what I was looking for, not a dissertation of why the airline pilot job sucks,. I think I know why many pilots on here have the feelings they do and many of my associates dont. Many of my associates got to the airline industry through the military. SOthey never went the regional route. They went from flying C-5's to flying 767's. SO their outlook is probably different from the guy that flies a CRJ for a regional. I am not sire that is just what I believe.