Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
Ask USMCFLYR. I bet he made more as a military officer than most legacy captains. I bet his current job pays much more than a new hire at a regional and has real benefits too.
Military pays scales are available on the web.
Did you just say that I made MORE as a militry officer than a Legacy captain?
At least in MY timeframe when my peers and seniors were getting out of the military to go to the airlines, it took about 3 years as an FO to make back what you were making in the military and then QUICKLY outpaced. That is WHY people were leaving the military for the airlines - and because they were tired of deploying.
Edit: I just did the min pay for a Delta CA on the DC-9 at 5 years.
WAY MORE than I was making when I retired!
As far as my current job paying more than a Regional New hire....well I certainly hope so!
There isn't anyone getting hired here with 1000 hrs of experience that I have come across. I couldn't beleive the level of experience of the newly hired pilots that I met in my P135 Indoc class.
Why did you go from comparing my militry salary to a Legacy Captin and then in the next breath compare my new gov't salary to a Regional new hire? Were you trying to make a specific point?
Were you trying to say that after a career in the military I would bethe same as a legacy Captain, but as a gov't new hire I am the same as a Regional new hire? The benefits are a plus of this job. It was certainly one of the draws for me.
I approached the military at the time I graduated from college and they were not hiring. Most of the ROTC guys who were offered training slots got the boot prior to starting.
How do you possibly have stats on MOST of the ROTC guys getting booted prior to training Sky?
Are you making a sweeping statement again without any proof
Do you mean the few ROTC guys that you might have known in college?
The military is ALWAYS hiring Sky.
What you meant is that you were not competitive enough during the time that you looked into the military for a pilot's slot.
Why would I have chosen the military at that point when FAPA was telling us all in Career Pilot magazine that we would be rock star legacy airline pilots in just a few years?
Why would you have chosen the military? I don't know - wanting to be part of something BIGGER than yourself and the pursuit of money? A sense of duty? A desire to give something back to your country? There are many reasons that one might decide to join the military and leave even a well paying civilian job behind. Pat Tillman would be one example.
USMCFLYR