Originally Posted by
asims33
Im personally really sick of reading this crap day in and day out... Its the same stuff over and over. You high time Airline pilots are always looking down your nose at those "Wet-ATP-Kid-Wonders" that make it to the right seat....
The airline must have saw some skill in that kid or he wouldnt have been there. If you dont like the industry then leave... If you had to have more hours to be hired than the current market that sucks sorry but i dont wanna hear you complain. I am only 20 years old, ive jumped hurdles and moved mountains to finish my flight training and ill be dammed if i let some bitter old capitain sit here and disrespect me and other young pilots by saying we havent payed our dues...Hell just finishing training is almost impossible nowadays, flight schools trying to rip you off, greedy examiners, bad weather, terrible economy, high fuel prices, bad hiring market, and to beat it all the more experiance pilots like some of you are so bitter you wont even look in the direction of a student pilot or a new pilot let alone help them or give them advice. You should be happy that we dont have to live off food stamps while waiting for a job....Im really sorry if you did, but now you are living your dream you should be stoked. Sounds to me like you are a bit immature to say stuff like that. Im sitting in a marketing office at an insurance company going insane behind a desk to pay my bills waiting for my chance to fly for an airline or cargo company, i have no clue what "dues" you are talking about but that is not in the job requirements sir you need to grow up.
As far as the minimums id say they are gonna be high to start off with just like everyone else. But as ive already learned newer pilots just need to hang in there our time will come.
The old time captains don't always ease up even if you are a 3-4 year FO. They look at those younger than 25 as babies. I have flown with several captains who have been a captain at the airline longer than I have been alive! These guys are ****ed off because for 25 years they have been flying 6 legs a day into crappy overnights with crappy airplanes at crappy wages. They complain about money and how $83 an hour is not enough to support their family of 5. They don't realize that they could be making double that at majors. For them, it is all about living where they want to live. Newport News, VA is a much "better" place in their opinion than Charlotte or Philly.
To a lot of these guys, the regional was their career goal. I remember in particular one captain who said that this regional was his career aspiration. He could live where he wanted to live and quickly be in the top 10 at the regional by the time he was 50. The point is, a lot of these guys who didn't get hired with the regional until they had over 5,000 hours and over 1,000 multi turbine PIC believe that no one else should get hired at that regional with less time. IMO, it may make them question whether or not what they did was right especially when someone with 250 hours has proven they can fly the airplane they worked so hard to get to 20+ years ago.