I don't have a flawed view of pilot value i know a 300 hour gulfstream grad can complete 99 percent of all flights in the modern jets without much issue. And that is proven everyday. As I once heard a Chicago center controller once says "With an operation this size we have to expect some loses."
QED, sugar. I'll explain later. But first:
With this industry failing you in so many ways would it not be childish to stay in it and complain about it everyday?
Nice try. The industry isn't failing ME. The industry is eroding from the bottom- and it shows no signs of slowing. In fact, it shows signs of serious acceleration. It is failing my expected future, because I made a terrible mistake. I thought the pressure from all pilot groups would stem the bleed. Any arse hat that sits in a RAH 175 doing nothing as a pilot (yup, I admit it- I'm a better pilot than them, and any Laker CA is better pilot than I) but claims, "Gee! I'm jess doin diss till massah lemme go, and I gets on to da biiiiig jets!" (minstrel dance here)
Since you are clearly NOT a Trip-Nine guy, I'll trim the fat and make a Reader's Digest level response.
It is a childish failure of imagination to explain immunity to this crap while sitting in a device that purely enables the erosion to occur more quickly. Was that too lofty a response?
Here- ya can't expect the stink to leave if you keep stomping cow pies. That better?
The problem is very clear to me. I know what I generate in revenue (thanks to my colleague's BRILLIANT question to my CEO). I know where I sit, as far as how much I make the airline.
Now put me up front in a FedEX MD11. (Gimme three minutes, I'll be in the vinegar strokes the whole while.) I'd be contributing a crazy amount of business to the bottom line. Why? Capacity much?
So, using your naptime and cookies blanket- the one that says, "WE AREN'T WORTH 200k, GET OVER IT"- you FAIL.
(You aren't "fail," as you'd say- you FAIL. Look it up, childish LOLCAT parlance aside.)
Do you really think scope relief will go away?
Do you think at ALL? Re-read that.
Do you really think in the current economic climate mainline wants to expand their payroll?
En Mort Main
Sit down, breathe deeply, ponder what a vinegar stroke might be, and come back in an hour.
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You're back.
NO. You destroyed the market. You enabled the erosion of the market. Which market? The isostatic market of pattern-bargained contracts.
As a reward, I left a Pez dispenser in the left lane of the busiest highway by your parents' house. Go find it. It is the one with an arse on it.