Quiting aviation?
05-04-2008 | 05:12 PM
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05-04-2008 | 05:20 PM
#22
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That's exactly what I would want to do...sit on reserve on my weekends! Someone recently axed me what I would miss if I left and I thought about the pay, stability and eventually trying to support a family, hotel life (weekends and holidays), starting over every time you upgrade or leave, etc., etc., My answer was nothing.
05-04-2008 | 05:28 PM
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I wish someone would have told me about this lifestyle before I started flying... UGH.....I don't know what to do. Get out now and figure something else out.. OR stick with it a while until I really can't stand it.
Being a pilot and having a wife/family is not a good combination.
Being a pilot and having a wife/family is not a good combination.
No offense to you or any of the other guys that posted regarding the lifestyle, but what did you expect?
I find it hard to believe that folks have actually ventured into this career path without doing their homework.
Either way, you either love the lifestyle or you hate it (and then you got the guys that have been in it for 20-30years and they just tolerate it). Typically you find out in the first 90 days whether or not this is for you. I just don't understand how there are folks that it takes them months, even years to figure out this is not what they want.
Oh well, best of luck all the same to you guys.
05-04-2008 | 05:46 PM
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05-04-2008 | 05:47 PM
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This guy has no intention of quitting aviation. In fact, he'll do your job for free.
This was posted by future777captain on jetcareers.com under the thread title Dear Airlines and Unionized Pilots. For those of you who are not familiar with it, jet careers is a website run by a Delta 767 f/o who has more ego than he knows what to do with, but that is another topic for another day.
Dear unionized airline pilots,
For guys who only work 85 hours a month and get all sorts of benefits and salary, you sure do whine a lot. What is it that you want? I think a lot of you are bitter because you are unsatisfied with where you work. But, look again, at the guys who work the starbucks at the airport, who fuel up the plane, the ticket counter agents. Is your job so bad now?
You get paid nice salaries to fly some of the finest aircraft ever produced. Isn't that why you got into flying in the first place?
But a lot of you older guys have done nothing else but fly since you were 15, so you have lost your perspective. Many younger pilots, let's say 30 and up, are actually doing piloting as a second career, so they have a tendency to be more grateful for their opportunities to fly for a major airline.
I will be a pilot one day. If I can get even as much as $30,000 a year to captain a cutting edge aircraft, I will be grateful as anything for the opportunity to do what I have always wanted to do.
For guys who only work 85 hours a month and get all sorts of benefits and salary, you sure do whine a lot. What is it that you want? I think a lot of you are bitter because you are unsatisfied with where you work. But, look again, at the guys who work the starbucks at the airport, who fuel up the plane, the ticket counter agents. Is your job so bad now?
You get paid nice salaries to fly some of the finest aircraft ever produced. Isn't that why you got into flying in the first place?
But a lot of you older guys have done nothing else but fly since you were 15, so you have lost your perspective. Many younger pilots, let's say 30 and up, are actually doing piloting as a second career, so they have a tendency to be more grateful for their opportunities to fly for a major airline.
I will be a pilot one day. If I can get even as much as $30,000 a year to captain a cutting edge aircraft, I will be grateful as anything for the opportunity to do what I have always wanted to do.
05-04-2008 | 05:55 PM
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This guy has no intention of quitting aviation. In fact, he'll do your job for free.
This was posted by future777captain on jetcareers.com under the thread title Dear Airlines and Unionized Pilots. For those of you who are not familiar with it, jet careers is a website run by a Delta 767 f/o who has more ego than he knows what to do with, but that is another topic for another day.
This was posted by future777captain on jetcareers.com under the thread title Dear Airlines and Unionized Pilots. For those of you who are not familiar with it, jet careers is a website run by a Delta 767 f/o who has more ego than he knows what to do with, but that is another topic for another day.
We can only hope that number 1: he is not as dumb as he sounds (and that his unbelievable level of ignorance can be cured by a few months on line as a Regional F/O), and number 2: that we may never have to share a cockpit with him...
05-04-2008 | 06:02 PM
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05-04-2008 | 06:04 PM
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I wish someone would have told me about this lifestyle before I started flying... UGH.....I don't know what to do. Get out now and figure something else out.. OR stick with it a while until I really can't stand it.
Being a pilot and having a wife/family is not a good combination.
Being a pilot and having a wife/family is not a good combination.
Seriously though, this works for some people and not for others. My girlfriend and I don't mind the time apart and we REALLY enjoy the time together as well as the travel opportunities and experiences. I have no intention of hanging it up. I've done enough other things to still really enjoy the hell out of this.
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