I did just over 26K first year at Colgan AND THAT COUNTS PER DIEM

 

The acronyms are less annoying than the errors in grammar..

 

Hey plane5150, were you aware that this forum is your resume? All future employers scour this website to ensure that everything you say is concise, creative, spelled correctly, and, most of all, grammatically correct. We trust that you will not make the same mistake again.

That being said, I get really frustrated when guys who are not airline pilots yet get on here and question us about why we are regional pilots. Its like all my mom's friends, "Well has your son thought about getting a job with Continental Airlines?" Ohh, I did not think of that! I was having so much fun making $30,000 this year that I didn't even think about it.

By all means, if you have a better way to advance our careers, please speak up.

 

Haha, how freaking true! Sad but true!!!!!!!!!

 

"Yeah, I heard about this great deal! I pay $82,000 and the company lets me warm the right seat and fill out the manifest! After three years, I go from 0 hours to ATP with a type rating in a Seminole! Then they let me sit in the jumpseat of an A380 for six months. After that, I get a seniority number with Virgin Intergalactic (they have a flow through program). So, I figure in about four years I will be making about $400,000 with 20 days off. I just feel sorry for all those fools who instructed, hauled jumpers, towed banners, and hauled freight. They just wasted their time in those little planes while I learned everything important in a full motion simulator."

 

You're, your....you get the point. I wasn't claiming to be an english professor. I thought I was being helpful to the guy by recommending more accurate acronyms for the guy's ratings.

While ...you...are...at it BURflyer, please teach me as to what the ".." after "grammar" in your above reply represents. Provide references if able.

Thanks

(Yes, petty, I know. Feel free to disregard if you have better things to do.)

 

Mod note:
Plane5150 (and BURflyer if you chose to respond to the above) - please take this to the PMs if you wish to continue this line.

USMCFLYR

 

Okay so correct me if I'm wrong... They're=They are, You're= you are, They're=they are.

 

Back on track here...


The airline payscales provide limited information because they only tell you how much your pay rate is, they do not tell you WHEN that pay rate applies.

Complicated workrules, usually negotiated by a union, determine when you get paid and when you don't.

For example, you could fly 80 hours and get paid for 95 at some companies under some circumstances.

There have also been companies where you could fly 95 hours and get paid only for 80.

There is no website that breaks down workrules, you would have to talk to pilots or read a lot on internet forums to get an approximate idea of where each company stands.

Quality of Life is also a huge factor to consider. Airline pilot base locations (domiciles), workrules, and corporate culture all contribute to or detract) from QOL.

You probably want to start your airline search by ruling out the worst bottom-feeders, then look at geography. A few dollars more an hour might not make up for having to commute to work, or live in a crappy city that you don't like.

 

The above would state you have are a certified instrument instructor and a multi-engine instructor. The CFII and MEI imply you have a commercial for single and ME. Neither however, states that you have instrument privileges on your ME commercial license. Which, as we all know, is an additional and more difficult test than the ME and MEI alone. Hence the reason I added the MECI. Unless I missed something?