Originally Posted by
asims33
I should clarify all of this into one post...
I am not rich
I am not ok with current pay rates for pilots nor will i ever be... My remarks on my investments were in reply to someone warning me of the industry as it is now i was only explaining that my financial situation will allow me to take a pay cut for a few short years until things get better. This is no way means i support lower pay and am ok with it at all.
I got involved in this conversation when i saw a capitain say something disrespectful towards newer pilots.
If i have offended anyone and any point you have my apologies. I am not a problem to the industry because i share the same beliefs as all of you and i will be your biggest support in the fight for better rights for pilots as i am right now.
Then don't make it sound like you are.
Frankly if you don't know your [stuff] you're not gonna get any respect, a lot of these senior guys will get a feel for you from how you conduct yourself on the radio (are you the clueless FO who doesn't know how to request a clearance from a remote airport?), how comfortable you feel in the plane and how you know your systems... if you aren't dead on with your answers their potential respect for you (which is already reduced because they don't feel you've spent enough time cutting your teeth) will be reduced further, and first impressions make all the difference. These guys are ****ed, and rightly so, that someone can pay 70 grand and is willing accept sub par wages for years just so they can play pilot and do what these same guys spent their lives earning the right to do.
I know of an AirWis pilot or two who are at wits end telling AllATPs wonders or JetU types to "stop [messing] with the FMS and flying the [darn] airplane", only to have the FO look back at them like deer in the headlights, and if you conduct yourself on the radio and professionally similarly to one of these "FO Wonder Boys/Girls" you'll get the same treatment, like it or not.