Do I Have A Future Here?
10-29-2007 | 11:13 AM
#72
Freightmama!
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From: 757/767 FO
No kidding! How about going away, missing your first child's birth and coming back with an arm missing! Skyhigh needs a reality check! He's on crack.
10-29-2007 | 11:24 AM
#73
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From: CH2T Worst plane ever
So does anyone have the news over at AWAC yet or what?
10-29-2007 | 11:28 AM
#74
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Doing One Pilot's Job
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10-29-2007 | 11:31 AM
#75
Gets Weekends Off
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From: 150 left seat if I'm lucky
skyhigh
I have way more respect for skyhigh who has been there and left than people who knowingly accept the 20k FO position and then complain about same things he brings up. I think some of what he says is valuable information for people like myself considering going into flying as a profession. At the very least hopefully he'll discourage some people so I can make more dough if/when I ever make the switch.
He could probably get his point across in about 10% of the posts though
He could probably get his point across in about 10% of the posts though
10-29-2007 | 11:34 AM
#76
Am I Wrong??????????
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From: ThE jEtTtTtTtT
No Pifs or anything out yet.....crap....i hate being told info to pass on and then not have anything happen....well the day is still young.
Oh yeah...and SkyHigh....go ahead and get back into the industry....pray that you live in base....cuz your never getting a seat on my airplane
Oh yeah...and SkyHigh....go ahead and get back into the industry....pray that you live in base....cuz your never getting a seat on my airplane
10-29-2007 | 11:35 AM
#77
Gets Weekends Off
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And go where exactly? Mesa, TSA, Colgan, Pinnacle, etc...????? My point is that this isn't just an AWAC issue. This has become the industry standard these days unfortunately.
I completely agree that we need to do whatever we can to change it. I would like nothing better than to see the company back where it once was. I think the website has some good info and will hopefully help spread the word to others of what's really going on out there.
I completely agree that we need to do whatever we can to change it. I would like nothing better than to see the company back where it once was. I think the website has some good info and will hopefully help spread the word to others of what's really going on out there.
10-29-2007 | 11:36 AM
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From: CH2T Worst plane ever
10-29-2007 | 12:38 PM
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THE BIG NEWS
Rumor has it that all our superb efforts at "competing to win" have allowed our ceo to purchase a nicely restored 1955 chriscraft. Further rumor places the chief pilot, and director of ops aboard the "competetor" along with a keg of leinie's!
Rumor has it that all our superb efforts at "competing to win" have allowed our ceo to purchase a nicely restored 1955 chriscraft. Further rumor places the chief pilot, and director of ops aboard the "competetor" along with a keg of leinie's!
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10-29-2007 | 12:54 PM
#80
Self Employed.
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From: Corporate Pilot
Ugly Honest truth
I am not bashing the industry.
All I do is to present the ugly and honest truth. Guys like me make it difficult for others to ignore realities that we all deal with as pilots. Most are in the sad position of having to tell themselves lies in order to keep the dream alive.
To most an airline career is a hobby job that can not afford to support its own cost of entry let alone a middle class family. It isn't getting any better either.
Some get lucky for a time and make it to a major but most will face several lay offs, furloughs and shutdowns before they make it to the promised land (if ever). The better jobs are slipping away while regionals and LCCs are taking over.
It is a fact that pilots receive much of their compensation as fun career accomplishment and personal satisfaction. Planes are easier to fly and the pilot group allows themselves to be a tool of management because they know that others wait in the wings to do it for less.
In effort of avoiding real work pilots end up working the hardest of all for the least return.
SkyHigh
All I do is to present the ugly and honest truth. Guys like me make it difficult for others to ignore realities that we all deal with as pilots. Most are in the sad position of having to tell themselves lies in order to keep the dream alive.
To most an airline career is a hobby job that can not afford to support its own cost of entry let alone a middle class family. It isn't getting any better either.
Some get lucky for a time and make it to a major but most will face several lay offs, furloughs and shutdowns before they make it to the promised land (if ever). The better jobs are slipping away while regionals and LCCs are taking over.
It is a fact that pilots receive much of their compensation as fun career accomplishment and personal satisfaction. Planes are easier to fly and the pilot group allows themselves to be a tool of management because they know that others wait in the wings to do it for less.
In effort of avoiding real work pilots end up working the hardest of all for the least return.
SkyHigh
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