7 Reasons NOT to Become An Airline Pilot
03-03-2015, 04:20 PM
#22
New Hire
Joined APC: Aug 2013
Position: CFI, CFII
Posts: 5
Thanks for posting these articles. Only 22 times around the sun, and I don't know everything and I'm not grown up yet (hopefully never will), but I love adventure and I like flying.
Systems management would be a welcome change IMHO, and I had the fortune of depression-era grandparents who saved and saved, and generous parents who bestowed me with the $$$. Got my CFI and CFII; I'm finishing up my senior year of school. I know GA pay tends to start higher and cap out lower, so I'm leaning towards the regionals and then majors. I've done lots and lots of reading.
Hell I got into aviation not because I think jetplanes are so so cool but because it involves systems management and lots of focus, the mid- and end-game salaries (absent of a very untimely furlough) won't be too shabby if I start now, you get a longish leash, and the office view and destinations are varied. I though it was a good fit 2.5 years ago and I still think that, though instructing can be frustrating at times.
Again, thanks for posting. This site has been a godsend for me.
Systems management would be a welcome change IMHO, and I had the fortune of depression-era grandparents who saved and saved, and generous parents who bestowed me with the $$$. Got my CFI and CFII; I'm finishing up my senior year of school. I know GA pay tends to start higher and cap out lower, so I'm leaning towards the regionals and then majors. I've done lots and lots of reading.
Hell I got into aviation not because I think jetplanes are so so cool but because it involves systems management and lots of focus, the mid- and end-game salaries (absent of a very untimely furlough) won't be too shabby if I start now, you get a longish leash, and the office view and destinations are varied. I though it was a good fit 2.5 years ago and I still think that, though instructing can be frustrating at times.
Again, thanks for posting. This site has been a godsend for me.
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03-03-2015, 05:06 PM
#23
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2013
Position: Port Bus
Posts: 725
Originally Posted by XJ86
I can agree the money is there later in the career. But with age 65 it really screwed career progression. And with majors making billions due to the 1/3 salary pay out to the regionals and regionals doing 55% of domestic flying, the government needs to step in. It is unethical to pay DAL employees massive profit sharing when 55% of it cae off the backs of guys and girls flying their planes their pax and their tickets...
03-03-2015, 07:26 PM
#24
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Joined APC: Nov 2011
Position: Volleyball Player
Posts: 3,982
Originally Posted by Pogey Bait
Really..come on man. Did you not have any idea what you were stepping into when you started this regional stuff. This has got to be one of the most whiny a$$ things that I have ever heard on here. Government intervention, wow.
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