Agreed. I think a hard dose of reality will hit when he has to make a lateral move.

Somebody needs to put together an Embry-Riddle reality tour for the kids presently enrolled. I can't imagine the potency of the Kool-Aid these kids are drinking. I'd love to hear their responses to the reality of paying $170,000 to get out and make $30,000/year (years after they graduate and obtain their ATP...and if the industry is actually hiring).

And this is why Eagle is furloughing 50 of us...

This is getting crazy! I agree with you again!
Can I still hang out in your kitchen?

What? :confused: Not sure if serious...

3200/month!!!! Wow. How are you making so much money? That equates to about twice minimum wage. You are getting paid the equivalent of two workers! I'm impressed.

$3200 per month was 2nd year F/E (that's flight engineer) in 1985! I wouldn't be so proud about it. Is your writing an example of Penn State education? I'm not impressed.

GF

They salivate for quick upgrades and then after 5-10 years, as RJ captains, they complain they aren't making decent money compared to most of their college buddies that went into other fields and make a lot more then them. They complain there are no jobs at United or Delta, etc. and that they are "stuck" at the regionals.

All the while never realizing that the philosophy of "more RJ's and quick upgrades" just imprisons them in the jail they made for themselves. As long as there are hungry, debt-ridden, SJS-infected pilots out there, managements will see that as an increasingly cheaper option to place more flying, thus hardening their own prison keys.

I hate to say it, but fully 2/3 of current regional pilots will never see a major airline pilots position and are for all intents and purposes "lifers" at their carriers. Some just wont find a slot, due to competition and others will simply fall into some arbitrary negative (like age) through no fault of their own. As the majors relinquish more flying to larger RJ's, these carriers become the career stop for many. However, since they are not stand-alone airlines, but function on short-term outsourcing contracts of another, their compensation is effectively and successfully held down to the levels they are...........in perpituity.

Truly a bleak scenario for a large precentage of the current and future Airlinii Pilotus.

.....in 1985 dollars !

The combination of Airlinii Pilotus and SJS can result in a terrible case of intoxicated delusion, frequently resulting in frustrated anti-socialism. Most of these guys have many years ahead of them kicking garbage cans around the crew room and drop-kicking the family cat on days off when they're not sitting in the back yard with a six-pack (of Blatz light) in a lawn-chair, ****ed off.

You forgot to add "and all the while accusing any regional Captain of 8 years seniority or more of being a Lifer and hogging my seat....."