Originally Posted by Systemized (Post 3017304)

Glad you liked it junior, getting ready for part II, “Alter Egos.”

Originally Posted by Systemized (Post 3017347)

Every mainline captain has a son or daughter in flight school. Before 2013, mainline pilots told every kid they knew not to become pilots, which created the pilot shortage.

Originally Posted by Systemized (Post 3017347)

The bonuses and higher FO pay was never there for the embry riddle kids. Those types were always willing to work for $22/hr. The bonuses were there to pull in pilots from other regionals or aviation segments as there wasn’t enough embry riddle kids out there.

Now we have plenty of embry riddle kids in the pipeline as their mainline parents got them in once the industry recovered, pilot shortage solved no need for higher FO pay so you guys better fight to hold onto it.

Every mainline captain has a son or daughter in flight school. Before 2013, mainline pilots told every kid they knew not to become pilots, which created the pilot shortage.

Originally Posted by Cujo665 (Post 3017755)

not even close to what caused the shortage.

Originally Posted by Romad172 (Post 3018397)

As for the pilot storage...cost its that simply. I got my PPL in High school working part time for 3.35/hr and you didn't have to written a 1000 dollar check for a check ride.

Originally Posted by Romad172 (Post 3018391)

name one professional pilot who would do something else if given the chance.......Most if if not all will need their cold dead hands pried from the stick.

Originally Posted by DontLookDown (Post 3018317)

It didn’t cause the shortage but was certainly a factor. It’s hard to keep the motivation to become a pro pilot when every professional pilot you talk to tells you that if they could go back they would do something else

Originally Posted by klondike (Post 3019202)

That must have been around the mid-eighties.
what I like to call “the good old days.”

These days are just plain old.