Originally Posted by
Contrail06
A couple things that always **** me off when I hear this.
Sacrifice: 100k in student loans means you make sacrifices to pay that payment every day for 15 years. Considering this job is all about senority and having the right time in the right plane/place to move on, I cant blame those who went this route.
Not everyone needed to take out a loan. lots of people have parents who got them the money they needed. This job is not all about seniority!! How many times do I need to say it. This job is about safely moving people around the globe. Looking for the easy way in while having 0 experience is not what this job is about.
REALLY want it: Everyone I knew was willing to put in the time required and jobs required to get to a regional. At the time however the choice was this:
1500 hours is a step in the right direction and given how washington operates its probably the only improvement we will get in the next 25 years.
Obviously they didn't really want it. They wanted the easy way in. Lack of knowledge and experience didn't matter to them. What mattered was the all might seniority number like you pointed out. So instead of taking the time to learn the craft of flying they jumped all the important little steps it takes to become a professional aviator. Also a lot of the guys took out big loans and then once they had a job at the regionals they realized they didn't like it as much as they did when they were learning. Reality hits and they would have found that out had they spent some time working as a pilot instead of being a professional student. There is a big difference.
So why do you think 1500 hours is a step in the right direction?