Depends on where home is I guess. When I was a Colgan FO the base was 5 minutes from home and I had 16-17 days off a month and a cushy side job teaching in a Sim that paid $40 an hour. Ah the old days...

 

1st yr Amflight: $2,300/month. Pic multi piston, Turbine PIC upgrade w/in 6 mos to a year

1st yr Colgan: $1,575/month Sic multi turbine. Upgrade time?

 

Oh yes, the quick upgrade time...

 

No he's not. Get that seniority number so that you can move on to better things.

 

I thought we went through this a couple of threads back, even some of tried to explain to you here. You need to be able to have a pulse. Be between the ages of 18-25 in good standing with your parents credit. Be energetic towards the company. Preferable bonuses are living 2-3000 miles away from base, having no experience with clouds, and pt 141 failures are ok too.

Seriously I don't understand why people care so much Colgan is probably the best airline to go to if you can stomach the regional life style there. From what I heard it sucks bad. But tprops usually upgrade faster so that you can move on to bigger things. Sounds good to me.

 

Is this true? I stopped counting all the warnings and bans after about 12.

 

He has been gone for a few weeks now. I think our current Mods do a pretty good job and allow threads to work themselves out before closing them down after one questionable post.

I mean, closing down the Comair thread after a few posts....come on.

 

Not sure who the Captain was but it was the FO I knew, Steve Dean, real good guy. I was watching the news at the time here in DFW and the local station reported a local pilot that was from here died in a crash, this was around 2003 or 2004, I sat straight up in bed when I herd that, we were instructors at a school together, anyway he was a good guy...

 

Confused about the hours I had a year ago, or confused about my "full-time instructing job" a year ago, or confused about my statement that a lot of bashers might actually change their tune if their circumstances changed? I left full-time management two years ago to get some multi time at a different school so I could try to "catch the hiring boom". Too late! I was quickly put in management and sales - again. Underpaid, so I went back to my original company and recently realized how much I want to fly instead of sitting at a desk and capping out at $60-70K with no real benefits. Now I want to fly!! Sure, someone might comment that I left one job because the working conditions were terrible and I was underpaid, so "why Colgan"? I can fly, finish my master's, get turbine PIC time sooner, and go work OVERSEAS - where they actually know how to pay pilots what they are worth!!

 

Can we nominate this statement right here for the "describe in 1 paragraph why all regional airline pilots get a rap for being retarded" award?

It is statements like these that show the mentality of pilots out there. And we wonder why the industry sucks.