Airline flying

[Ty Webb]

Most of you guys who complain crack me up. The company could come to you and tell you that they were going to pay you $1,000,000 to work one day a week and you'd bitch because it was a Friday.

Guys who make the stupid statement you made above are often the same guys who started off "flying for free to get experience" and later become the guys that are "willing to do whatever it takes", which seems to include the famous "I never call in sick" . . . . guys like you aren't helping, either.


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[Ty Webb]

Schmoke-en!

Wellll. A friend was dating a nurse, a stripper, and a flight attendant all at the same time. He said the nurse was the nastiest slut of them all.

You say that like it's a bad thing . . . Nurses, especially ER nurses, are the best. Throw a little tequila on that fire! Yeah. Baby!!!!!!!!! Look out!


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[PunchTheClown]

You say that like it's a bad thing . . . Nurses, especially ER nurses, are the best. Throw a little tequila on that fire! Yeah. Baby!!!!!!!!! Look out!


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Maybe this will be the start of a new thread: "Whats the skankiest profession?"

 

[ELVISP]

For what its worth Aviation jobs are all like piles of crap...and we (pilots) are flies...we zip around and understand that crap is well...crap. But then we find one that the stink isn't as bad as the rest and go with it. I have lots of friends with "regular" jobs and it seems to me that our "piles of crap" are simply skid marks compared to their piles of crap. Not to mention most that I know that make a ton of cash would trade places with almost any of us in a blink of an eye.
Oh, and one last thing...God Bless skanky nurses. LOL

 

[Whine Lover]

Perhaps we should all become high paid Gynecologists who specialize in providing services to skanky Nurses?

That's what we like to call a "win-win" situation...ain't it?

YKW

 

[Tejas-Jet]

The big advantage with other highly trained professions is that you can just walk, often times to a higher paying job.

But we all knew that coming in....didn't we? Guppy Puppy, you knew this when you first decided you wanted to be an airline pilot....didn't you?....

Tejas

 

[Bjammin]

I hate it when someone is disatisfied with there job and tells everyone who may be looking for a good flying career to back off.

I absolutly LOVE being an airline pilot. I still fly jets for the Navy so I know what real flying is, but truly do like airline flying as well. It's a challenge to fly the 744 well on every leg. I watch captains screw the pooch on occasion and all I want is to be as good as them.

My first year pay was still a pay raise compared to 19 years active in the military, I love the people I fly with and have a blast on overnights with them all over the world, the company is making tons of cash and is expanding, and I get many days off at my home in San Diego

Maybe i'm the excpetion, but I don't think I would be happy doing ANYTHING else.

If it's lousy for you move into another airline or get out all together. Miserable people suck.

New guys, don't listlen to only the negitive. There are great things to be had in the airline industry. Just keep an open mind, do some hard research and find the place that's best for YOU.

 

[BVT94]

I absolutly LOVE being an airline pilot. I still fly jets for the Navy so I know what real flying is, but truly do like airline flying as well.

You're Dangerous!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MkOPCGYizQ

 

[capt. megadeth]

You're Dangerous!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MkOPCGYizQ

That was hilarious!

 

[ELVISP]

Damn...I have flown with that guy! hahahaha

 

[learflyer]

"that's the 09:35 out of Tampa":laugh:

 

[JettBoii]

Capt Megadeath; you an RN? It does not suck; pays more than any regional job ever will! I worked 12 days a month and made more than most RJ pilots including the captains. And lets see; home every weekend, holiday pay, 12 hour shifts (7a-7p, mon-wed); shift differential; off the rest of the time......but nope that was not good enough. Now I make 1/3 of what I used to; work every weekend and holidays; all so I can eat tuna out of a package in my underwear in a godforsaken laquinta hotel in the middle of Meridian Mississippi. Why don't I go back to the other career? I think it about it every day but I would not be able to make Beavis and Butthead noises on the op's frequency in ATL!

 

[capt. megadeth]

Capt Megadeath; you an RN? It does not suck; pays more than any regional job ever will! I worked 12 days a month and made more than most RJ pilots including the captains. And lets see; home every weekend, holiday pay, 12 hour shifts (7a-7p, mon-wed); shift differential; off the rest of the time......but nope that was not good enough.!

Uh, I don't know where you worked at but any hospital ER in Chicago is not going to give you a M-W schedule. Try every other weekend, every other holiday. People think pilots get treated like crap? HA....try working in an inner city ER! You get treated like crap by people whose kids you pay for with your taxes. Let's see......septic nursing home patient gets dumped off by the medics. I am by myself in the room to do everything including cleaning up the caked on crap on their butt because the nursing home nurses have 25 patients. 45 minutes later I get to come out of the room just in time for a loser that just OD'd from drugs they bought with their welfare check. The loser has the nerve to ask for food just as I walk in the door. Oh, then there's the loser that used the ambulance for a ride to the hospital and now expects the hospital to pay for a taxi for a ride home. Then it's time for triage......lots more fun. Loser comes in for a free pregnancy test. Or how about the idiot that calls the ambulance for stomach pain? Need I go on? If that sounds like it doesn't suck, then I don't know what does. If you think nursing is so great, you can have it. I would rather work at a regional for the rest of my life than do that $hit 40 hours a week. The pay is great you say? Yes, it is good pay but I was making $56 an hour and it got to the point it wasn't worth it anymore.

 

[AA717driver]

Pilots and nurses go together like "orange" and "juice". It's a natural, although sometimes dangerous combination. I salute it!

On topic (I guess) part of the problem is that many people coming into the industry today are expecting it to be all wine and roses from day one. No one (other than people like us) are telling them the truth.

A couple of months before I got laid off, I met a freshly-minted Purdue pilot who married a girl at our church. I tried to give him a heads up but he wasn't buying any of it. He was on his way to the big time.

His first job was at PSA... That was three years ago. Now he's in training to be a missionary pilot (I admire him for this. I think that would be a really cool gig--tough to get a beer in the middle of Cameroon, though...).

I can't wait to see him again. I don't want to be snotty about it but someone has to wake these kids up (not being condescending, you'll say the same thing when you've been in the business 20 years, too) to the realities of the airlines.TC

 

[Whine Lover]

"I am by myself in the room to do everything including cleaning up the caked on crap on their butt... Yes, it is good pay... I was making $56 an hour..."

I hear your pretty Hot.(?)

I'll go $58.00 an hour for that kind of action...Is Saturday night good for you?


YKW