hindsight2020
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I agree with you AA717, I just need to quote you here to raise a couple of points about some themes in the posts above yours.
Does one need a reason? As as soon-to-be commercial pilot, and working honestly and with motivation on my CFI stuff, yet looking at my wallet going "sh!t I still need more ratings?!?", watching my savings account dissapear and getting snickered by CFII/MEI's and regional hopeful and burn-outs alike with the "oh look at the young one, so proud of his comm ticket aaaawwwwwwww", I wouldn't be too dismissive of the inspector job. I actually think it's a great (read better) way to pay the bills and still get to fly to the content of the average regional pilot. I bet my bottom dollar on that.
Not every inspector is a frustrated case, likewise not every pilot (including those who are better sticks than current major drivers) wants to be an airline pilot. If I had a dollar for every time a CFI asks me in flight "do you want to fly 121?" followed by my two hour response I'd have enough money to buy my own T-38.
I for one, look forward to the time where I have the experience level to apply for this job. I have let go of the wishful thought that the CFI landscape will change, it won't. People will continue to whore out for a 121 gig and the market will stay saturated, and people like me, outside of this 'track', will need to circumvent the status quo and get creative to continue to enjoy this passion of ours, even if it means desk jockeying half the week.
On the topic of desk jockeying, plus being a little biased since I paid out the ass for an engineering degree, I feel these kind of jobs are GENERALLY not that abrasive to our pilot egos, since it somewhat keeps us in the environment that we feel comfortable with (jet a smell, runways, ramps, airplanes, more excuses to go outside). I'm speaking generally by large of course. I'd take it over the regional brothel if they'd give me the chance FWIW.
My .02 pesos
AA717driver said:
Does one need a reason? As as soon-to-be commercial pilot, and working honestly and with motivation on my CFI stuff, yet looking at my wallet going "sh!t I still need more ratings?!?", watching my savings account dissapear and getting snickered by CFII/MEI's and regional hopeful and burn-outs alike with the "oh look at the young one, so proud of his comm ticket aaaawwwwwwww", I wouldn't be too dismissive of the inspector job. I actually think it's a great (read better) way to pay the bills and still get to fly to the content of the average regional pilot. I bet my bottom dollar on that.
Not every inspector is a frustrated case, likewise not every pilot (including those who are better sticks than current major drivers) wants to be an airline pilot. If I had a dollar for every time a CFI asks me in flight "do you want to fly 121?" followed by my two hour response I'd have enough money to buy my own T-38.
I for one, look forward to the time where I have the experience level to apply for this job. I have let go of the wishful thought that the CFI landscape will change, it won't. People will continue to whore out for a 121 gig and the market will stay saturated, and people like me, outside of this 'track', will need to circumvent the status quo and get creative to continue to enjoy this passion of ours, even if it means desk jockeying half the week.
On the topic of desk jockeying, plus being a little biased since I paid out the ass for an engineering degree, I feel these kind of jobs are GENERALLY not that abrasive to our pilot egos, since it somewhat keeps us in the environment that we feel comfortable with (jet a smell, runways, ramps, airplanes, more excuses to go outside). I'm speaking generally by large of course. I'd take it over the regional brothel if they'd give me the chance FWIW.
My .02 pesos
