Lol Here at C5 we have one called ole sparky lol

You can do an extra 16 hours at Mesa if you volunteer for four days instead of just one

Thanks for bringing the reality check in here. The majority here sold out for pennies when we could have gotten dimes.

Not very excited to take a 50K pay cut in Oct to go fly for mainline. Im 10k short of grossing 100k at pdt right now. W July check I will be right under it. Also, I have NEVER once dropped below 11 days off a month the entire year at little ole Peed On. Really a 10 grand month at pdt is a bad month and has been for the last 18 months. But, All the regionals are still garbage. Appreciated the rides to and from the Reno Air Races on Mesa last few years also.

Just one year.. you can do it! Than ez life starts.. amazing how the guys that are on the other side look 10 years younger already...

Holy hell that is the truth! I completely forgot about how true that was when I was new. I used to think.. "wow!! These guys have been here 20 plus years... The company must be so wonderful to work for, and they must enjoy everything about it!' Gawd, was I a fn idiot when I was Johnny Brite Stripes .(Not much as changed either) Felt so bad for everyone w gray hair in their 30's from the abuse after I peeled the blinders off.

I am so happy for everyone getting into the regionals now at 23/24 most will be where they want before 30. Doesn't matter where you are Mesa, Great Lakes, Envoy.. You upgrade gain some expirence-do something for your company other than just line fly and any of the big 3 will offer you a interview. Ugg sorry for the post that is useless to the topic of the thread. TOTD nominated

MKUltra and Battlinbear21, I quite agree with you.

Someone who gets their 4 year college degree (need I say that again?), gets their hours, works at any of the regionals, volunteers, and keeps their nose clean can expect to be hired by a major by just before their 30th birthday. (Assuming no black swan event, like 9/11.)

Any of the six majors (American, Delta, United, Southwest, FedEx, and UPS) will afford a pilot a very nice upper middle class lifestyle and excellent assets for retirement.

With the mandatory retirement wave (which is going to last 20+ years), someone hiring on by age 30 can expect an upgrade to captain by their mid-40s or so. They will spend a couple of decades in the left seat, making excellent coin, and spending quite a few years with a choice of prime lines.

I am not a rah rah, I am just stating the facts.

Yea possibly even sooner. What's the upgrade time at delta on the 717 and 73 2 years? 6 right now at AA on the airways airbus. Probably gonna be 15 years to hold group 4 but 200 plus a hour is fine. Who really needs 300?
Agree w everything you said about education, volunteer work. Service in training,Saftey, recruitment. Get out of the swamp in less that 5.