Originally Posted by SkyHigh

After a restful (not) night at a trashy truck stop grade hotel in a podunk town a regional pilot commonly starts the day at 3:30AM for a 4:30 show time and a 5:00AM departure. After 14 hours of scheduled duty time, three airplane swaps, two airport fast food meals the regional pilot is finally able to stand in the rain awaiting the van ride to the next crummy hotel where the bed is hard and truckers yell obscenities at prostitutes in the parking lot all night. Regional turboprop pilots are stuck in the weather all day between two pounding propellers. Major airline pilots do not fly 9 leg days, climb to FL 350, and rarely had to show before 7:00AM

Regional pilots wear the same uniforms as legacy guys and have a similar job but their lives are very much not the same. A regional pilot lives in trailer parks and wish they were mailmen. I always wanted something better and was not willing to cut my future short merely because I was able to fly a plane everyday.


Skyhigh