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Pilots are the smartest as long as they're not giving financial or marriage advice. 😂😂😂

Sooner or later you will realize that most doctors are only guessing and don't really know how anything truly works. I think the long wait beyond your appointment time is simply them in their office using a DR version of Google.

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Originally Posted by KA350Driver (Post 2846194)

Being a doctor is harder than being a pilot. It takes years more education and training. That’s what he’s saying.

Close to you 100% of doctors have the mental ability to become a professional pilot if they so chose. The percentage of professional pilots who could pass medical school and residency is significantly lower.

I think some might be missing my point. Replace dr with another profession that takes skill and training. My brother is an electrician with at least half a dozen employees but is growing and needing more. He’s had to raise pay and benefits to “steal” qualified workers from other companies to come work for him. If you tried to start an electrician business in his state paying min wages you wouldn’t last long. There are only so many skilled and qualified professionals and they expect to be paid in accordance to their training and skills or they will go elsewhere. The more money and time you put into training for your career the higher return on in investment you would expect.

Via died because they did not have good mx programs in place and their management was awful. I know this firsthand.

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Originally Posted by brownie (Post 2846284)

Pilots are the smartest as long as they're not giving financial or marriage advice. 😂😂😂

I mentioned this before, and a few people got “triggered”.

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Originally Posted by Red Forman (Post 2846088)

That’s terrible starting pay! Last year we hired a 500 hour FO and he started at $77k.

Nobody is hiring a 500 hour FO at a part 121 regional airline.

$50k base salary not including OT or per diem is a better starting salary then most regionals.

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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer (Post 2846498)

Via died because they did not have good mx programs in place and their management was awful. I know this firsthand.

Mostly management. The MX improved the longer they had the former TSA planes and worked the bugs out. Initially the first few years the planes had a horrific dispatch reliability record..... but again, they were told by those who knew not to buy the planes from TSA, but they didn't listen. That pattern of not listening to experienced industry professionals eventually closed the airline. Mismanagement plain and simple.

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Originally Posted by mpflyboy1 (Post 2845984)

If a hospital opened up with shiny new equipment but wanted to hire doctors for $40k/year working night shifts and crappy benefits, then had to shut down because they couldn’t hire or keep doctors, would it be blamed on a dr shortage?

They already do exactly that. They call them interns and work them like slaves.

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Originally Posted by Cujo665 (Post 2846975)

I concur 100%. It was the same story on the pt 135 side

I don't think the ACMIs are as hard up as everyone says they are. Atlas and Southern are probably the exception because of the contract situation.