bobbysamd
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I was not a businessman but a guy working for an employer, and a career changer before it became popular. I had no money. Fortunately, for me at the time, I had no dependents, so I could earmark my discretionary income for flying. I started the same way that most younger (than me) people start, by flight instructing. Somehow, through work and perseverence, I built the multi time you see on my profile. What's stopping these "successful business people" from doing the same?
I second 350Driver regarding the talent at Gulfstream. I am sure there are plenty of good pilots at Gulfstream. That's really immaterial because these discussions tend to turn on the intent of the program. Pilots who've worked hard to build a career will resent those who try to pull an end-run around them via their checkbook.
Once more, violins, anyone?jppt2000 said:. . . . Alot of those folks you say that are "punks"
wasting Daddy's money were successful business people, switching careers, that earned their money and paid for the chance to get Multi time.
I was not a businessman but a guy working for an employer, and a career changer before it became popular. I had no money. Fortunately, for me at the time, I had no dependents, so I could earmark my discretionary income for flying. I started the same way that most younger (than me) people start, by flight instructing. Somehow, through work and perseverence, I built the multi time you see on my profile. What's stopping these "successful business people" from doing the same?
That's inaccurate. I am no lover of CAA, but it is not P-F-T. The Commercial-Multi-Instrument-CFI you earn there can be shopped anywhere. For once, let's get the definition of P-F-T right. P-F-T is when you pay for training as a condition of employment at a particular company, that training is specific to that company and applies only to that company.The other major group of pilots have very large loans to pay. Why not pick on Comair?, ASA, they were PFT.
I second 350Driver regarding the talent at Gulfstream. I am sure there are plenty of good pilots at Gulfstream. That's really immaterial because these discussions tend to turn on the intent of the program. Pilots who've worked hard to build a career will resent those who try to pull an end-run around them via their checkbook.