People are misinformed and assume flying for a regional (any of them) will be better than instructing. Then, they get there and reality sinks in and end up leaving. Unfortunately, there are certain things that must be learned the hard way. I learned the hard way but walked away before I put in any real time. I did gain invaluable experience. I got to see what it was like to fly for a company that will back stab employees. I got to learn all my aircraft systems in practice due to all the MELs. I got to experience an abnormal situation at least once a month. In general, those who are attending a University will have a different approach than those who are not for the most part. You can't forget that there are those out there who have no student loans and so any return value by any airline will be more than money invested in this career. Too, many factors to list and those vary with up bringing and economical backgrounds. But, not to worry. Those who do decide to go there and are people of value, will not last a year.

 

Why would they randomly fire a pilot they trained if they can't even find enough candidates to apply for the job? This seems very strange!

 

Ok none of this is true. Especially with CQT, it's an asinine assumption.

I got out quickly. Many others have also

 

When did you leave & to where??

 

It didn't happen to Bernouli so I guess it doesn't happen and never happened. Give me the 100 best pilots in aviation and I can get 95 of them to fail a check ride in a sim on a single maneuver. And all 95 will agree that they failed. Nothing hard but you set them up mentally to expect one thing and something else happens. The loud noise along with the timing starts a mental process that causes the error. I bet every sim instructor has a similar item that they discovered by accident.

I remember at one airline the pilots were having the captains log all landings so that every FO would be noncurrent in 90 days. They were trying to force the company to do something, I forget what. The DO said that every FO who has to go into the sim to get recurrent could expect him to be there sitting in the sim. He didn't say he would make the instructor fail the guy but the instructor would not have any leeway to pass him if he wasn't perfect so both the instructor and the FO would be nervous. The job action ended quickly.

I remember another job action at a company. Eight guys in a row failed the sim and the job action abruptly ended. This was pre pria so it didn't have much effect except losing a little pay. With pria that kind of stuff can end your career. Actually, it may prevent you from leaving that company because others may not hire you. Now there is a creative way to keep pilots.

I recommend to go for the quality regionals. Comair is gone but Skywest is still out there. What other regionals would you consider quality?

 

More than a year ago.

A legacy carrier.

I had a good experience at G7. No regrets at all.

 

For the love of god someone help me get off of the Union message board!!! I quit so I cannot login to the site myself. I need a contact number or email. Please!!!

 

Dude, just go to the ibt website, request a username and pw reminder and remove yourself..

 

Dude I am not a member anymore. Thanks dude.

 

How about pilot busts arm at work during slip and fall, returns to work after some time, then wife goes into hospital. Pilot has to take care of kids. Pilot lost job!