Originally Posted by
Mesabah
RJ's have allowed people who have no business being anywhere near an airplane to have full careers as airline pilots. That is the RJ's legacy.........
I was going to ignore it but......darn
2% of the Regional pilots got hired with less than 1000 hours and you are insulting all Regional pilots and that is more than 15 thousend pilots....
The interview at the Regional level is not the same at every company. Some companies have extensive testing and evaluation and requested 1000+ hours all the time.
For most Regional pilots it took as much work and time to get to a Regional as it use to take to get to a legacy. They are at a Regional because legacy did everything they could not to hire or maybe you have not noticed that in the last few years there has been no positive movement at the legacys. The few that got hired 2006-2008 at the legacys went there mostly from Regionals and flew RJs and those guys are today furloughs.
To get from right seat to the left one takes 15 to 20 years at most legacy airlines.
If a pilot has done 135 cargo or some other type of flying for some years and wants to fly 121 jet operation the idea of staying in the right seat for the rest of the career is maybe not what that pilot wants....
The legacy Airlines changed the whole industry and invented the Regional Companies by offering Small companies the flying and Airplanes as their own pilots did not want to do it. To blaim RJ pilots is just stupid.
What about the guys on laptops while flying larger jets and the guys landing on taxi-ways......,do they belong in the airlines?
If you even are a pilot, are you 100% sure you should be or belong in an airline? maybe some people that knows you thinks different.......
