Originally Posted by
cac737
Hey guys,
I also don't do much posting on these boards, but also felt compelled to share some "thoughts". I can't totally blame monkeyboy though, because he just doesn't know any better. He still has the image of that smiling 19 year old with full uniform and hat sitting in the left seat of a major airliner with the caption: $19,500 ab initio fast track program to the left seat, guaranteed interview or whatever they are marketing nowadays still burning in his mind, and for the lack of a proper education that is all he has to go by......so it totally isn't all his fault. Which brings me to the beef I have with these Gawd damn colleges that still peddle their ****e WITHOUT some dose of reality.
They have a financial back alley agreement with the mesa's or other highly visible carrier and don't fully explain to them all aspects of aviation.
Ah well, I can go on and on but we all know the deal here, but speaking of focus, I just shake my head at some of what I hear about how they do things from a guy I know that works there. Same ol promises of a start up only to %$# their crews while they try to grow.
Oh well, still beats home depot or a cubicle 9-5 contemplating when you will take the stapler and "set the building on fire".......
Wow I didn't even realize that this thread was still going..... Damn CAC 737 you made a hell of a lot of assumptions about me and my back ground MOST OF WHICH ARE WRONG!!!! First of all as for me being a GOD DAMN ACADEMY PUKE. No Im not.... I CFI'd flew, 135 and put up with a ton of Bull $hit to get here just like everybody else... and in fact I never knew these academy pukes existed until my first day of ground school and when I found out about the concept I was PI$$ED and it pi$$es me off that I have seen CFI's and 135 guys who 2 to 3 times the number of hours as these academy pukes plus college degrees yet their resumes dont even get a second glance by regional HR dept's and usually wind up in the circular file. Meanwhile little 19 year old $hit head who bearly got a GED and has 250 hours gets hired. Yes I am on the younger side hell I was 22 almost 23 when I started flying 121 but no I am not an academy puke and although I didn't have an ATP when I was hired I did go and get it once I turned 23.... As for my education yes I do have a Bachelors degree and am currently about a third of the way through my Masters and No my degrees are not in Aviation. As for thinking that flying RJ's is a real job and thinking the CRJ is great. No that is not the case either. This place I am at is strictly a steping stone till I can get to the next place.... Yes I know people do not like regional guys but please tell me where the FUK else I can get the jet time I need to move on... My simple point in all this was the payscale at FOCUS AIR SUCKS and I don't think it right that people are flying an airplane that almost 17 times the size of a CRJ 200 for not that much more pay and btw to my understanding Focus Air has its own academy type deal with ERAU. Doesnt it? So what's that? Just more SJS as far as I can tell. No time just out of Riddle pilots flying 747's for no pay. That's just brilliant. Finally as for me being "whats wrong with this industy" I hardly think that's the case since I'm just a young guy who's trying to work hard and make his way up in the world. No I am not happy with what I get paid but there again I am trying to get my time pay my dues and move up that is all.