Originally Posted by Blueskies21

Don't give management ideas, you think pay is bad now... wait till they're only paying allowance. Personally I don't think a nine year old could, but then I don't have a 9 year old so I don't really have a method to evaluate their skills.

As far as the autopilot at 600 thing, at my previous airline if you didn't hand fly to 10,000 ft the guy next to you was probably gonna think you were a pansy, many guys hand flew all the way to cruise. At XJ most guys DO turn on the autopilot at 600', I've seen some make it to 1000' so it's definately a company culture thing. I was told that XJ is that way b/c of the Minneapolis FSDO.

Are you on the 900?