Positive Airline Pilot Posts Only Please
 

I am getting tired of always being the bad guy and would like to try a thread where everyone "myself included" must only write positive things about aviation.

Here goes:

More than at any other time in aviation now is the best time to get into an airline career. Jobs are plenty and easy to get. The variety of careers is expanding as well. Not only are the regionals hiring but now the industry offers jobs in the fractionals and a growing international options aw well. Anyone who dreams of flying will find a job in short order.

SkyHigh

Props to whoever hacked into skyhigh's account!! :)

Seriously though good to see a thread like this. I also agree great time to get in the industry because you will have a job quickly!

I've been off 38 of the last 45 days and have not used one day of vacation.

Puff, Puff, Give... Skyhigh

What happen.. Somebody gave you an intervention or something. I great to see you not complaining

I agree, times are good for the airlines and pilots in general. Lets all hope that this trend will lead to better compensation and work rules for all of us.

It's only good times if the salaries go up. I loved to fly but bills have to be paid. I'm sure there are guys who will take a 747 job for $35,000 a year.

He finally took our advice and went and got some anti-depressants!!!!!

And to you Mr. SkyHigh, I present you a new avatar:

http://www.stickergiant.com/Merchant...5/y309_125.gif

Belated April Fool's joke!

I'm IOE bumped off half of my next trip...freeeeee money!

In the past month, I have been at home for over three weeks. This all during training.

I love the avatar! Can I use it?

Sure. Something tells me Mr. Positive won't be using it :)

At any given moment, there are 50 to 60 people logged into the regional section of this forum alone. That's true even at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. What other industry has people hanging out surfing the web, making posts on forums and drawing a paycheck while they do it? I've read so many posts by Saab that I feel like he's family. :D I have to wonder when he actually has time to fly though?

I am going to Rome for Free with 4 of my nest friends for a little more than a week, thanks to my privileges........................


PS. My girlfriend constantly makes fun of me becuase Im always on here, I tell her its better than being addicted to crack ;)

does your gf know that your banging all sorts of F/A's when your out on your 4 day trips? just kidding. have fun in rome!

SAAB, I told u to be careful what you say on here ;-)

haha Im tellin ya bro, Im waiting for the day I am in the crew room and some guy is gonna be like, yeah that jackass on APC what an idiot that SAAB guy hehe........ Im going to get a big monkey sticker and put it on my Flight Case so all off my APC buddies can say hello :)

its got to be the same monkey on your avatar so we can recognize you

silly^^
Just look for a short James Dean!:D

that cracks me up!

Couldn't have said it better myself...........Ok Im going to Bed, the gusting to 33kts in EWR has rendered me quite useless now........good night all and fly safe ;)

What the heck are "nest friends"??? Sounds like a truly bizarre living arrangement! :D

haha....
Do they all fit together in the nest?:eek: :D

SkyHigh = Off the ignore list

Green one = One click away from the list

Wow *sigh of relief* This is great... I'm actually not totally dreading the fact that I've applied to a college to become a pilot. I think I will only read stuff from this thread now! So.... here's a little story from this weekend. I was setting up my son's new swingset that his grandpa got him. We live reasonably close to the hospital here and we heard the life flight chopper coming in. He looked up and said choo choo? I said nope that's a helicopter. He said why? I told him that when people are hurt with boo boos He flys down to take them to get fixed. Keep in mind he's only 2 years old. We walked down the road and watched the chopper come in and land. We sat there admiring it from a distance until it started back up again. It took off and went behind the tree line and he wanted to follow it.

We were then out getting ice cream from a little mom and pop shop in the country when we heard another sound in the air. He looked up and said Hela? I assume he was asking if it was the life flight chopper again. I walked him out from under the awning and it was a little Cessna. I said no that's an airplane. I said if you're a good boy all week next friday we'll go to the airport and see lots of them. He goes *gasp* OH BOY!. About an hour passed and he said, "Daddy? Plane?" I said nope but you're being very good so far. It's now Monday and I think I'm just as excited to go as he is.

OK here's my positive post on aviation;

Eight months ago I stopped flying due to a medical issue. I assumed I was done for good and got a job, still in aviaition, albeit sitting in a cubicle 10 hours a day, 4 days a week. In spite of the culture shock of working in an office, I enjoy the job because I work with a great group of pilots.

Now, I am getting a First Class back at a time when hiring is going gangbusters throughout the industry and I feel so lucky to be making a fresh start at such a great time. I cant wait until the next time I get to take off into a low overcast/ 1/2 sm vis only to find a deep indigo sky giving way to a spectacular sunrise a few thousand feet above. You never see that from a cubicle...

OK, back to being a cynical b*stard...

Green Sky$$
 

My crashpad mate (MD11 Captain) made $22,000 last month.:eek:

Yeah, I hear selling your first born can be pretty lucrative.

Yeah; that's pretty much what you have to do to get hired here these days it seems!;)

16:30 in Tokyo if anyone is wondering why I'm on this at 2:30 am USA time.:) Time to go downstairs for some noodles!;)

I Won The Lottery! I Quit!

Positive
 

Aviation is more safer now than ever before. :)

SkyHigh

let's all try and be really positive.
 

Airplanes are bigger than they used to be.
Airports are bigger than they used to be.
Pilots are bigger than they used to be.

But airports are still bigger than airplanes and are bigger than pilots.
This is a little dippy!

Are you serious?

Awesome layovers !!
 

Some of my best times were spent alone wandering about Manhattan on layovers. What a place! NYC is awesome!

Skyhigh

.......still waiting for SkyHigh's bottle of Johnnie Walker to run dry.........

Southern Comfort
 

Southern Comfort or Tanqueray please. :D

Some of us remember round engines with props, steam gauges, hi-fi, sliderules, big cars with fins, pleated skirts, and Sputnick. Now we have SJS, Flat Screens, IPODS, PCs, Hi-breds, NASA and short skirts. Life just keeps getting better. :cool:

I am a new member to APC but I have been reading a number of your posts for over a month. It's a good place to get a smile. I like the positive thread so I thought I would make my move and ask some daunting questions I'm dealing with. I am a private pilot with an instrument rating (piston single). I am married with a kid on the way and about to go through ATPs airline pilot program. My wife and I am prepared to make only $18k a year and to fight through the airline business cycles. If anyone feels nice, please offer a guy some advise following your footsteps....
1) Truly, how often will I be gone? I live in Fayetteville, NC. Is it realistic to think I can commute to wherever and not move to a hub city? I am close to Raleigh, Charlotte and relatively close to Atlanta. Chitaqua and ASA serve Fayetteville. ASA for Delta 4 times a day to Atlanta and Chitaqua for US Airways 5 times a day to Charlotte. Is it realistic to hope for a job with one of them?
2) How does the reserve thing work? Are you stuck in the hub city(which from what I have read is the Base??) or will I have, say, a 48 hour notice to be somewhere.
3) I won't be done training and teaching with ATP for about 6 months. Do you think the regionals will still be sucking up pilots?
4) It seems that most of you fly between 80-100 hours a month. Is that about right?

Thanks to anyone willing to help. Hope the best to you all.

in all seriousness. i feel sorry for you. alot of people that can successfully go into regionals have very little commitments - whether it be family, where they live, etc. its easy for a 21 year old single guy or girl to give everything up and make 18K a year and aspire to become a major airline pilot. with a wife and kid(s), i feel really bad for you... but on the bright side reference the food stamp thread cuz youll be eligible for those

Joe
 

Dear Joe,

I wish I could help you, but no one knows the answers to most of your questions. The industry changes constantly and there are a wide variety of job situations you could find yourself in.

Lets all hope that you find what you need when the time comes.

Skyhigh