Originally Posted by
dashtrash300
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.
I absolutely agree but being bitter is not the way to go... So you made a bad career choice in staying in the regionals, you get what you ask for. And as i said earlier as a young pilot it makes me angry to hear these older guys talk like that... its not my fault you had to live off of bologna and cheese and fly a caravan for 10 years to be hired, i feel for ya, but i dont and you should be happy that the industry is growing, instead of being bitter and high and mighty how about coming down to our level and sharing your knowlege. As i said if you arent happy in the industry then get out. No sense in acting like some little kid about it, you cant change it thats just the way it is.
The demand for pilots has went through the roof in the past 20 or so years. 340 million people in the USA and only 800k pilots...thats less that 0.5% of the population, With that little group and the big demand of airtravel and the addition of new airlines and planes there are gonna be people like myself hired that had less experiance than you did when you were hired.
Bad news for the older ones but the minimums will keep going down slowly until the FAA steps in and regulates it which will eventually happen. But that just means the industry is growing.