Originally Posted by tom11011

If you know who this pilot is, you have a duty to the flying public to report this person to the FAA. You may very well have a suicidal pilot on your hands here. Don't just wash your hands of this, you are involved, do something NOW. You are basically on notice and share some of the culpability if something happens. At the very least, this pilot is not medically eligible to fly.

This is no different than that hypothetical question you get during an interview "what would you do if you smelled alcohol on the captains breath". Same situation here my friend. If you are a Captain, you should understand your responsibility here. What does your training, experience, and judgment tell you here?

Originally Posted by tom11011

If you know who this pilot is, you have a duty to the flying public to report this person to the FAA. You may very well have a suicidal pilot on your hands here. Don't just wash your hands of this, you are involved, do something NOW. You are basically on notice and share some of the culpability if something happens. At the very least, this pilot is not medically eligible to fly.

This is no different than that hypothetical question you get during an interview "what would you do if you smelled alcohol on the captains breath". Same situation here my friend. If you are a Captain, you should understand your responsibility here. What does your training, experience, and judgment tell you here?

Originally Posted by Loon

I think you are making a little too much of it. Why don't you go have a drink and lighten up a bit. I did not get anything in there close to a possible suicide. Maybe you should read it again.

Originally Posted by Bzzt

That had less to do with a negative outlook and more to do with unfortunate financial circumstance. My wife was out of work at the time and we quite simply couldn't afford the pay cut + a month without pay + lodging during training. I wanted to go to CPZ and I really liked the people I met during my interview. Unfortunately I just couldn't make it work.

Like I've said before I use this forum to vent frustration. I come off worse than I do in life. An interesting note is that your career arc is what sells most of us on this career. Unfortunately you seem to be more of an outlier than the norm. Every year I get a bit older and the payoff of continuing to chase the mainline job gets a bit less. I'm approaching the "**** or get off the pot" moment, I'd like this career to work out but it seems increasingly unlikely. I'm not the only one who feels this way, so I try to provide the dark side perspective to guys asking questions.

I won't deny that when the door is shut the career is nice. Unfortunately there is also stagnation, regional schedules, low pay , and commuting that really suck the life out of me.

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

Remember that you got in at a time when the music was stopping. The last 5 years have been rather depressing for many involved. However, in the airline sector we felt less pain than many others in other sectors. Much of the fat was cut in the airlines post 9/11, but at the same time a bubble in the regionals was created. That's where the fat was in this last downturn and the bubble came to a head.

The music is starting again and at a rather dramatic rate. For example, Usair is at full training capacity and is still going to be several hundred pilots short of what they really need. DL is going to be critically short as well, despite running 50 a month. There will be opportunities to be had that are much better career places for most at a regional now. There will always be the outliers and the lifers, but for the majority, there will be good things to come.

Originally Posted by Loon

The chq staffing idea was in the plans anyway as the 145 is on borrowed time. He used the "drawdown" as propaganda. People thought it was a threat, but twas no threat at all; the fact is that chq is not long for this world and this has been known for sometime(just look at DAL 50 seat outlook).
I did think it was comical the way that the propaganda ministry parked 7 or 8 "dormant" jungle jets against the Alph gates fence at sdf the week of the vote closing.

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

Yes, I was 25 (almost 26).

Keep in mind your attitude has a tremendous effect on it, and your incessant negative outlook likely self-destructed your biggest opportunity lately by turning down CPZ.

Originally Posted by Paid2fly

It's nice that it all worked out so perfectly for you. That is not exactly the "norm" in this profession. Those that I've personally witnessed follow a similar career "path" were either sons or daughters of legacy pilots, connected ex-military, could check the correct quota box, or were so busy kissing up to every single jump seater on board that they didn't have time to perform their flight duties.

Originally Posted by Amjadian

To the OP,

There are lots of RAH haters on this site. Granted, I'm not saying this is the best regional by any means. But understand this, every single regional has its own issues and that 5-10% of bitter pilots.

I've been at RAH for a year now. Some days, I love my job (mainly, because of the people I fly with) and some days, I absolutely hate it.

It's no secret that most regionals close and open bases at their leisure with very little regard to how it may effect their pilots. So don't come here, because you want to be based out of XYZ. For all we know, that base could close before you finish OE. But as a general rule, majority of our bases are more east coast commuter friendly.

Reserve at RAH is what you make out of it. As a commuter myself with a super crappy commute, I didn't find it to be horrible because I was used regularly. If you happen to live in base and want to kick it at home and collect the monthly guarantee, it might be different.