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04-11-2007 | 05:22 PM
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Hey !!
and I know no one wants to do that. 
04-12-2007 | 03:58 AM
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Stick to it Sky, I want to hear your musings. Also, keep looking for another flying job so we can hear how that's going.
If and when regionals bump up the payscale for second-year FOs to $40k, I will eat the salary loss at my present job and apply to an airline. Many would say this is join-the-circus mentality, because it is unlikely I would ever make back wages lost from my present job.
At some point you have to ask what life is all about, security on the one hand or reaching ones fullest potential on the other. I think I would reach my fullest potential flying for a living, but the financial picture still doesn't work in that scenario. Since I am single and middle-aged I wouldn't be jeopardizing anyone's future except my own but for a family man or woman it would be irresponsible.
If and when regionals bump up the payscale for second-year FOs to $40k, I will eat the salary loss at my present job and apply to an airline. Many would say this is join-the-circus mentality, because it is unlikely I would ever make back wages lost from my present job.
At some point you have to ask what life is all about, security on the one hand or reaching ones fullest potential on the other. I think I would reach my fullest potential flying for a living, but the financial picture still doesn't work in that scenario. Since I am single and middle-aged I wouldn't be jeopardizing anyone's future except my own but for a family man or woman it would be irresponsible.
04-12-2007 | 05:45 AM
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Stick to it Sky, I want to hear your musings. Also, keep looking for another flying job so we can hear how that's going.
If and when regionals bump up the payscale for second-year FOs to $40k, I will eat the salary loss at my present job and apply to an airline. Many would say this is join-the-circus mentality, because it is unlikely I would ever make back wages lost from my present job.
At some point you have to ask what life is all about, security on the one hand or reaching ones fullest potential on the other. I think I would reach my fullest potential flying for a living, but the financial picture still doesn't work in that scenario. Since I am single and middle-aged I wouldn't be jeopardizing anyone's future except my own but for a family man or woman it would be irresponsible.
If and when regionals bump up the payscale for second-year FOs to $40k, I will eat the salary loss at my present job and apply to an airline. Many would say this is join-the-circus mentality, because it is unlikely I would ever make back wages lost from my present job.
At some point you have to ask what life is all about, security on the one hand or reaching ones fullest potential on the other. I think I would reach my fullest potential flying for a living, but the financial picture still doesn't work in that scenario. Since I am single and middle-aged I wouldn't be jeopardizing anyone's future except my own but for a family man or woman it would be irresponsible.
If the regionals keep lowering their minimums perhaps you could take a 6 month leave of absence and fulfill your airline dream. Get hired by a local company. Spend two to three months in training and two to three months on the line. By the end you will be ready and happy to go back to your old job. The airlines get boring fast.
I can't imagine pay going up even if pilots really do become scarce. Competition will assure that wages remain low. I do however expect that they might relax the work rules in trade for higher pay. In time the regionals might become flexible enough to offer part time positions.
I remember that Horizon Air had a line share program where two FA's would share one line. The job would be much more bearable if you only had two four day trips a month.
SkyHigh
04-12-2007 | 05:57 AM
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Like you would know?
You are contradicting yourself.
If the supply is scarce, there is no competition.
If there is competition, the supply is not scarce.
At least Æsop's fox walked away.
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If the supply is scarce, there is no competition.
If there is competition, the supply is not scarce.
At least Æsop's fox walked away.
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04-12-2007 | 06:32 AM
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04-12-2007 | 06:33 AM
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I spent two years at Horizon Air and three with National Airlines as a first officer. Before that I spent many years as an Alaskan bush pilot, flight instructor, medevac, on demand charter, and forest service contract pilot.
The airlines were hugely boring in comparison. I can't imagine the psychological torture a 12 hour leg is in one of those cargo planes. Five hours at 35,000 feet staring at a motionless panel was unbearably dull. A typical highlight of the leg was when the captain clipped his toenails. Fun...
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The airlines were hugely boring in comparison. I can't imagine the psychological torture a 12 hour leg is in one of those cargo planes. Five hours at 35,000 feet staring at a motionless panel was unbearably dull. A typical highlight of the leg was when the captain clipped his toenails. Fun...
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