Who Here is Actively looking to get out?
04-22-2012, 07:10 PM
#322
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: FAA 'Flight Check'
Posts: 13,837
USMCFLYR
04-22-2012, 07:26 PM
#323
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Joined APC: Jul 2009
Posts: 519
If your message is that pilots can go from zero to hero in less than a year...then we're on the same page. My post essentially agress with yours. One doesn't need to be a Brain Surgeon to be a Pilot. It's why there will never be a shortage of pilots. We aren't as special as we'd like to think we are.
04-24-2012, 06:54 PM
#324
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2007
Position: B747 Driver
Posts: 198
I work Monday to Friday during day VFR only. I get all my weekends off unless we had a bad weather week and then get tagged for a Saturday once or twice a year. Get 40 hours a week pay at $37.45/hour and good benefits. QOL is good. However, to do this I am stuck in a cycle of taking 0 hour military pilots (some with civilian flight time), doing only primary maneuvers, and then solo them in 10-14 hours. That's the part that burns me out. Over and over again all year long. With a QOL like this there is no place to move to. While many tell me you have to be kidding to complain about this gig how many of us signed up for 800-1200 hours a year in a DA20 instructing?
I'm considering moving on to something else. Saw a local trucker driver who owns his rig and gone two weeks, home two weeks make $250,000 last year with $100K in operating expenses. Not my cup of tea but are you kidding me? We certainly got the short end of the stick in the pilot industry.
Good luck to all those making the switch. Still debating but looking at the grass on the other side of the fence and not finding it much better.
I'm considering moving on to something else. Saw a local trucker driver who owns his rig and gone two weeks, home two weeks make $250,000 last year with $100K in operating expenses. Not my cup of tea but are you kidding me? We certainly got the short end of the stick in the pilot industry.
Good luck to all those making the switch. Still debating but looking at the grass on the other side of the fence and not finding it much better.
04-25-2012, 06:33 AM
#325
Self Employed.
Joined APC: May 2005
Position: Corporate Pilot
Posts: 7,119
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I work Monday to Friday during day VFR only. I get all my weekends off unless we had a bad weather week and then get tagged for a Saturday once or twice a year. Get 40 hours a week pay at $37.45/hour and good benefits. QOL is good. However, to do this I am stuck in a cycle of taking 0 hour military pilots (some with civilian flight time), doing only primary maneuvers, and then solo them in 10-14 hours. That's the part that burns me out. Over and over again all year long. With a QOL like this there is no place to move to. While many tell me you have to be kidding to complain about this gig how many of us signed up for 800-1200 hours a year in a DA20 instructing?
I'm considering moving on to something else. Saw a local trucker driver who owns his rig and gone two weeks, home two weeks make $250,000 last year with $100K in operating expenses. Not my cup of tea but are you kidding me? We certainly got the short end of the stick in the pilot industry.
Good luck to all those making the switch. Still debating but looking at the grass on the other side of the fence and not finding it much better.
I'm considering moving on to something else. Saw a local trucker driver who owns his rig and gone two weeks, home two weeks make $250,000 last year with $100K in operating expenses. Not my cup of tea but are you kidding me? We certainly got the short end of the stick in the pilot industry.
Good luck to all those making the switch. Still debating but looking at the grass on the other side of the fence and not finding it much better.
Skyhigh
05-23-2012, 05:37 AM
#329
Self Employed.
Joined APC: May 2005
Position: Corporate Pilot
Posts: 7,119
05-23-2012, 05:39 AM
#330
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: FO - 757/767
Posts: 1,228
Here is my worry. I didn't mind being gone. I enjoyed it. My girlfriend of 7 years didn't mind either. We had a hard time adjusting once I was furloughed. My fear is this, as I understand it, EVERYTHING changes once you have kids. And if we have a kid and I HATE being away flying I might have given up a great oppotunity.
I wish my Dad hadn't drilled into me that, "If you enjoy what you do, you will never work a day in your life." I never felt like flying was work. But everyday I wake up for this managment job I groan.
I wish my Dad hadn't drilled into me that, "If you enjoy what you do, you will never work a day in your life." I never felt like flying was work. But everyday I wake up for this managment job I groan.
A lot of cliches were started by some people trying to control other people. e.g., "money doesn't buy happiness", no it doesn't, but try taking that coveted family vacation (in which memories are endless) without money. Some rich guy one day came up with that old one when one of his workers asked for a raise and that guy (who was dumb enough to believe it), started spreading it.
Btw, it's about time that a thread like this is getting some "positive" feedback.
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