Alright already, maybe you think that we don't care about the masses and I will say that is not true. I do care that a junior pilot gets 72 hours in 16-18 days and a senior one gets 87+ in 12-13 days but the truth of the matter is all in perception and point of view. My big beef with the few here that are complaining about this injustice is that they only just beef, and not do anything else about it other than whine.

The mechanisms are in place for them to get involved and make changes if they feel it is unfair and imbalanced. Join a committee, form a new one, get involved! The survey will be out soon and although some feel that is merely barking at the moon, it is one of those mechanisms. We all feel we have the "right" to fair pay and schedules and that is fine, but to rant and rave on a anonymous web site is futile other than making yourself feel good and righteous for the moment. There were a lot of barbs in some of the things were said to me (and my senior peers) and I guess I just got plain defensive. If you perceive that to mean that I am a "got mine, screw you" kinda person, well, I apologize, because the plain truth is it's just not so. I agree that there is dispairity in the methods of our scheduling system, but it is what it is, at least for now. I have the same right to feel and voice my opinion as the next guy, and if it is taken the wrong way, well so be it.

Please do one thing....try seeing things from different perspectives and maybe you will understand that there are two sides to every story.

Once again, if I torqued off my fellow pilots, I apologize. I had hoped that this forum would be a bit different than that "other one". I didn't think I would have to defend and justify my existence at JB, but maybe I was wrong. I have certainly been there before!

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