Twenty-year-old FO!

[AGuyThatFlys]

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060719/BUSINESS/607190328/1046

I hope the industry doesn't kill the love of flying this kid evidently has.

 

[RJP]

Love of flying is what ruined this industry in the first place.

 

[Way2Broke]

Love of flying is what ruined this industry in the first place.

Yaaa, umm I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there. Greedy business people ruined this industy. The love of flight is what keeps this biz going.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Yaaa, umm I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there. Greedy business people ruined this industy. The love of flight is what keeps this biz going.

second that...

 

[WorldOnTime]

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060719/BUSINESS/607190328/1046

I hope the industry doesn't kill the love of flying this kid evidently has.

This kid is all over it. Sounds like he came up the right way too, didn't buy his way through anywhere. I was glad to see that he is still on track to finish his degree. 40 years at Coex might be kinda tough!

The way he is going, I am sure he will retire #1 somewhere...if the bastards don't eat his soul and kill his spirit before that.

 

[Prop2Jet]

"I've been working really hard. Ever since I can remember, I've wanted to be a pilot," Szanto said"

If he worked really hard then he deserves his place in the industry, unlike some of these 400hr ATP wonerder grads. My hat is off for him.

 

[Longhorn]

I agree with all....good for him.

 

[Metro752]

There have been 19 year old regional FOs. I don't understand what the big deal is here. There's been plenty of 20 year old FOs.

 

[YourPilotFriend]

Best I've seen is years ago there was a 19 year old flying for a race car team making more than $100,000. That was in the 90's though when this thing was a completely different beast.

 

[jbDC9]

"I've been working really hard. Ever since I can remember, I've wanted to be a pilot," Szanto said"

If he worked really hard then he deserves his place in the industry, unlike some of these 400hr ATP wonder grads. My hat is off for him.

"...It's a long process, but stick with it and do your best. Everyone has to pay their dues," Szanto said.

Good for him, seriously, and I don't mean to rain on his parade... but he hasn't been at it long enough to work really hard. High school, flight school, instruct for a few months, then straight to ERJ FO. What's so hard about that? Everyone is doing that these days with very low time, big deal. No college, no freight, no long days in a ragged out BE-1900 or Metroliner... he hasn't even started to pay his dues yet.

Sorry for the rant, but it's just too cuddly and sweet...

 

[thowe21]

There are plenty of 23 24 25 year olds out there who went to college first and then got airline jobs instead of doing the online thing... woopdie doo who cares how old you are

 

[satpak77]

good for him but I don't see the "big deal factor"

the airplane don't know how old you are. 20 year old flying a turboprop (as copilot)?

that "wow" factor should be tempered with 25 year olds flying Mach 2 with lethal weapons strapped to the wings, single pilot in fighters.

put the two together and its no big deal

 

[CRJDog]

As the youngest member of ALPA he will be honored in DC and told to get ready for 40 years of pure hell brought to him by ALPA.

 

[Carl_Spackler]

Pinnacle has had FO's who were 19. This guy will only be the youngest ALPA member till someone gets hired who is younger than he is. Maybe a younger FO will be hired between now and the DC event, and while he is being "honored" there will be the real youngest ALPA member sitting on reserve somewhere.

 

[Cardinal]

Usual deal, an unnewsworthy item getting play because some editor has space to fill. If I had a nickel for every "acomplishment" that made the newspapers - when I've done the same thing on the same time table - well, I wouldn't have to fly much.

My greater concern is that ALPA has no retired members older than 78...This job does kill you early.

 

[ReverseSensing]

The way he is going, I am sure he will retire #1 somewhere...if the bastards don't eat his soul and kill his spirit before that.

Well, when that happens, he can always become an assistant chief pilot/flight ops manager.

 

[WorldOnTime]

Well, when that happens, he can always become an assistant chief pilot/flight ops manager.

No doubt!

 

[~~~^~~~]

Thanks to Chautauqua & COEX's lack of scope he will probably also be ALPA's youngest furloughed member.

 

[whatfuelpolicy]

"I've been working really hard. Ever since I can remember, I've wanted to be a pilot," Szanto said"

If he worked really hard then he deserves his place in the industry, unlike some of these 400hr ATP wonerder grads. My hat is off for him.

Brian Szanto is an ATP Grad. I worked with him myself, and in fact, he instructed for ATP in Houston.

 

[Superpilot92]

who cares, there are some wonder children at the majors right now also. There are people who have been hired at CAL and United, etc around this age