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05-21-2009 | 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by seafeye

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Roger Cohen, president of the Regional Airline Association, an advocacy group based in Washington, said that while individual airlines' training curriculum may differ slightly, all meet or exceed the FAA requirements for pilot training.

All regional airlines' pilots hold the Air Transport Pilot license, "the PhD of pilot licenses," Cohen said.

I could be reading too deeply into this, but it could possibly be the incessant misuse of the word pilot (captain) vs. first officer (co-pilot).

05-21-2009 | 10:50 AM

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While nobody would chose to be unsafe or unprofessional just because they aren't paid much, there is still a connection. A pilot who is underpaid is generally going to be more stressed at home and has a higher chance of fatigue. If you're forced to live in a crashpad or hooptie apartment with loud neighbors, you'll naturally not be at your best at work. Add to that the lower nutrition, quality of life, high debt, and any number of other side effects to not getting paid sufficiently, and you get a lower quality pilot.

People may not desire to be that way but to just dismiss that pay has nothing to do with the quality of the pilot is a short sighted view at best.

And as for the pilots not ironing their shirts or generally being unconcerned with "professionalism," its hard to be one when your company treats you like day labor. At some point it gets easy to stop caring when it seems everyone else at the company has stopped a long time ago.

05-21-2009 | 10:58 AM

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I am trying to keep this on topic. It would be nice to put together an article about the lies of the RAA and Regional Airlines. While people have their ears open it is a good time to get our thoughts heard.

As for pilots being perfect? Were not. Sometime in your career you might get lucky and have a near perfect flight. Maybe about the time you are phyically fit, current, well rested and emotionally stable. Then it's all downhill. Pilots will not retire at 65 and be at their best. Only a short time in our career will we be flying close to 100%. Regional airlines schedules and pay keep us from being 100%. Nothing to do with being professional, we just don't have the tools to work at our best. And that includes $$$

05-21-2009 | 02:52 PM

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Another thing that Cohen stated was that Pilot pay does not effect the safety of them flying.. which I beg to differ. Low-paid pilots with financial obligations generally worry on how they're going to be able to meet all of their responsibilities, what better time to do it than to think about it when you're at FL360 on a 2 hour flight? If you're not concentrating on flying, then you're not flying safe. It's part of the I.M.S.A.F.E. checklist that was drilled into our heads during flight school.

Exactly. If you are so much preocupied about making it financially to the end of the month or if your pay does not allow you to have "reasonable" housing close to home base and are exhausted by the commutes, surely safety is affected.