BoredToDeath
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Nindiri said:I have flown with several former GIA FO's at my company, and all of them were professional and competent. That doesn't mean I endorse their PFT program; I think there are better and cheaper ways to build time, but that doesn't mean that the full-time GIA pilots are any less professional than anyone else.
To be blunt, I think that anyone who calls someone else a derogatory name simply because that person chose another route to the airlines than he did is a sad person who tries to blame others for his own career problems. I preferred to build experience by flying corporate until I had enough time to qualify without PFT, but I have no problem with someone who chooses to work his butt off saving his money for a PFT program. No one owes you a job, and the PFTer is not stealing anyone's job.
Wow, I thought that this thread would be done by now. I'll make this response quick cause I gotta go get tires before the snow really kicks in.
Nindiri,
I actually never said that the GIA pilots who PFT'd were less professional than anyone else, I said they were SCUMBAGS. Please quote me correctly in the future. You can choose not to call someone a derogatory if thats the way you feel. I on the other hand belive that the name fits.
It fits because these PFT'ers are helping management in the process of destroying our payscales. By forking up the money they are telling Mgnt. that, " hey I love to fly soooo much that I'll do anything to do it". I don't know about you or anyone else here but I won't "Do anything" to do this job. I'll do it for MONEY. (that doesn't sound right does it?) Well you know what I mean.
I respect your opinion of me, you think I'm sad and theres probably not much I could say to change your mind about it, but I'll try anywhy. My use of the word SCUMBAG I feel is the only way to get the point across to the ones just starting out in this industry of how bad it is to PFT. Just like the way we use the word SCAB to describe the POS who will cross a pickett line to better their own self interests.
And to address your opinion that I'm only blaming others for my career problems. You could'nt further from the truth. If you read the begining of the thread you'll see that someone asked for an opinion and I gave them one. Is that wrong? No.
I am very happy with my career. I've worked at many companies, flown many types of planes to alot of different places. I do have one regret though. I wish I had stayed in the charter biz, airline flying is really boring, but that has nothing to do with my opinion of PFT programs and the pilots that get suckered into them.
These programs hurt the industry and thats why I'm against them not for any other reason that you or anyone else can come up with.