Originally Posted by rorwizard

Yeah... i guess i could throw something useful in here.

Kstateflyer, in all seriousness... if what you have posted here tonight are truly your perceptions of the airline industry you need to do some serious research before you spend a lot of money on your education, and web boards might not be the ideal place to do it because as you can see smart asses like myself will just give you a hard time. You say you are at K-state, I recommend finding a professor or someone on the flight ops side that you respect and trust (preferrably somone that has worked in the industry as a pilot) and having a long sit down with this person to get all of these questions answered. I would suggest writing your questions down, or organizing them in some way before you go do this.

You shouldn't have a hard time finding someone who's willing to talk to you about this kind of stuff at a university with an aviation program. That should give a pretty good start, and then you can go from there. I'm sure that person can refer you to more reliable sources than APC or flightinfo.

I really do hope that you have a great time with your flight training, doing whatever job you end up finding, no matter if that be flight instructing or flying with us here at Mesaba, or both.