...still waiting for free beer.

I think we can all agree there!

I think the post should read Free Beer Tomorrow

It`s not that dead kittys are a bad thing.......

HSLD,

Sorry to hear some people are on your back. Just another case of no good deed goes unpunished. Please, PLEASE, don't change a thing. I started this flying thing a decade ago. Had I been able to find the information you provide all in one place, I might have saved a half a dozen years getting on track. Just remember, some folks just dont know how valuable the information you provide is.

Thank you so much for your contibution to my (and many others') futures,
JSH

P.S. I think showing the payscales can only help us to win passenger support for increased pay (for crew members on both sides of the cockpit door)

I completely second this! Great post!!! I strongly believe the information I gained on this site will help me make the right decisions later on.

Keeping "everything" including "base pay" open and available helps everyone in the industry, including those in the military. This is what this site is all about. "Pilots helping pilots" Thank you HSLD and your co-founder. There are too many people out there trying to take advantage of pilots and you guys do a great job keeping this site professional and in focus.
I'll buy you and the co-founder a "free beer" and then some anytime!

A third here, if there is such a thing. I'm military too, and have learned more here in the past 3-4 months than I possibly could anywhere else.

BTW, concur also with the posts above about forums going downhill after political discussions are formally allowed. I've seen several where a rational exchange of differing opinion, while nice to have in that ideal utopic world, is simply not possibly with the heartless and uncaring annonymity of the internet. Even a serious but rational political debate ends up spriralling down to personal insults and attacks which contribute nothing to the discussion but to make everyone involved mad.