CrimsonEclipse

Paying $27k for a minimum wage job is not "lucky"

ShyGuy

Eh, the path worked for me. 3 checkrides total: Private, Instrument, and Commercial-Multi. No commercial-single, no CFI. Right after the commercial multi checkride, I immediately did the RJ course, and got hired at a regional airline. In my logbook, there's one entry for Com/Multi checkride, and the next time I flew a plane (the next actual flight entry) is CRJ when I started IOE. That kinda fast track came at a cost. You're right, the wages suck for regional FOs but I've since moved on and currently on second year pay on the A320, which isn't too bad.

feltf4

More importantly. Sweet turtle neck.

Zoot Suit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uywpIT4mGYI

Funny how the Captain is not wearing ANY stripes and she is wearing 4. Also, nice of her to be walking around with her shirt unbuttoned down to her, well nuff said of her professionalism.

Every day when she wakes up and looks at herself in the mirror she should repeat these words... "I'm not half as good as I think I am."

usmc-sgt

You have essentially bypassed most of what is great about GA and aviation in general. A glorified ab initio program is what you did.

You are 100% correct, it got you to a jet quick. I have a difficult time relating to people who "skip" experience.

ugleeual

give her a break! any of us would take a fast track... the whole "pay your dues" is a load of BS... good on her.

feltf4

Yeah.. I am not really jealous. Sure it would be really cool to fly a Gulfstream. When I was 16 I got the opportunity to sit right seat in a King Air 100 for about 50 hours. It was a blast, I was 100% behind the plane, but it was an opportunity of a life time when I was 16. I think about it now and would appreciate it much more now then I did back then when I really didn't know what was going on. Good for her.

Also, she really isn't that attractive.

FlyJSH

Boy, watching that video, she only proves she is a 250 hour pilot. Watch it again concentrating on her control inputs in comparison to the horizon. On both the takeoff roll and rollout, she drifts left of the center line. She never manages to set AND HOLD the pitch from rotation until that terrifying emergency (it looks like she almost levels off prior to gear retraction). She's workin' that yoke like she's milkin' a cow: back and forth, up 'n down. And in the flair, she's sawin' away, tryin' to find the ground.

The whole thing made me feel like I was putting a student pilot under the hood: exhausted and queasy.

Am I being too harsh on a 250 hour pilot? If she were flying an Archer full of checks, yeah. But she's a big girl flying a big girl airplane.

There is one good thing about her PIO's: they keep the spices in her rack from getting clumpy.

frozenboxhauler

You're right, lose the 4th stripe. I almost got air-sick watching the video,...way too heavy on the controls!
fbh

frozenboxhauler

Could not have said it better myself, Thank you!