over and out

[Foobar]

Ciao!

I bet I’ve been here the longest. I’ve had a few screen names. Got to change it if your co-workers know who you are! I used to read will fly for food, then that message board died and this one opened.

I got my hours, paid my CFI dues in full (that’s not my current time) and I’ll be gosh darned if I’m taking a regional airline job for 20K a year. Not even 25K. In fact, I’ll consider the job when it starts at 40 to 50K the first year. “Ha!” you say. “I want it more and I’ll do it for free!”

Well morons, the job is all yours; I’m back to my desk job. My wife told me I can buy a cardinal RG if I don’t have a job flying for a living. So that’s it. I’m out. I could get a job with a regional next year. I don’t want it. It’s all yours. Sold to the lowest bidder.

Thanks to you guys that provided some great information over the last few years.

For you guys that paid for a job at ASA, took a job at mesa, offered to right seat for free, went to work at airlink where you don’t even get paid in training, gave instruction in the twin for free…. You’ll get the industry you created and deserved.

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

well, what the heII, it's winter solstice (er, christmas) and I feel like giving back too...

"they" can have my job too, since I intend to retire from the back seat of a Cub

 

[Timebuilder]

I know what you mean, Foobar.

In 1998, I had my sights set on Comair.

In 2000, I had my sights set on Netjets.

Now, I've had a resume with a captain recommendation in at Options for the past six months. Nada.

Now, I could try to scrape together 80k to build up time in a 172 so I fit the proper amount of "experience" for their hiring profile (I guess the Lear time isn't an issue for them) but that might only qualify me for a 20k job.

All your base are belong to us.

 

[labbats]

For you guys that paid for a job at ASA, took a job at mesa, offered to right seat for free, went to work at airlink where you don’t even get paid in training, gave instruction in the twin for free…. You’ll get the industry you created and deserved.

What about all of us in the trenches eeking out the flight time that won't do that? Such is life.

But anyway, congrats on the Cardinal. Have a blast and fly your wife somewhere nice.

 

[Typhoon1244]

You’ll get the industry you created and deserved.

By golly, he's right. Let's all resign in protest. I'm sure we'll be able to talk all the thousands of starry-eyed students and CFI's in Prescott and Vero Beach and Daytona and Melbourne (and so on and so forth) to ignore those jobs.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

We'll do it tomorrow. C'mon, who's with me?

 

[skyking1976]

Re: Re: over and out

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Let him go. He's on a roll...

 

[MarineGrunt]

All your base are belong to us.

You have no chance survive make your time.



Someone set us up the bomb.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Okay, I give up. What does...

All your base are belong to us.

...mean?

 

[skyking1976]

There was a link to it on some previous post. Vlad Lenin has the "Linky".

 

[skyking1976]

I think that would be "Link-ski".

 

[skyking1976]

AHHHHH MOTHERLAND!!!

Speaking of...

http://home.tiscali.nl/multicom/DaSchop/endofworld.swf

 

[Typhoon1244]

I guess "linky" is how they say it in the motherland...

No, that'd be "linkski."

And it'd be much heavier and square looking...

 

[kevdog]

Foobar, not to sound mean or anything but you only have 1,000 hours - what do you expect? Good luck with everything, have fun in the cardinal.

Happy Holidays!

 

[Typhoon1244]

Foobar, not to sound mean or anything but you only have 1,000 hours - what do you expect?

Flame bait! Flame bait!

 

[kevdog]

Flame bait! Flame bait!

Sorry, flying is risky business for a career.

 

[bart]

Foobar,

Best of luck, I really understand. Flying is alot more fun when you don't have to do it. If I am going to have to do something for money, I would rather work less of the time and make 6 or 7 times the money. Flying seems to be the one exception to the rule "you get out of it what you put into it." Who knows, maybe I am wired wrong to garner all the intrinsic benefits of working 14 hour days for what I can make in 2 or 3 hours doing something else.

I have a P35 Bonanza on my radar screen that will take the place of my contract flying next fall. Maybe I can meet you for a burger somewhere.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

I agree, its a screwed up business!
Start at it while you are very young, or not at all.
One simply cannot be married, family etc and go through the rough years. The "flying as a second career" types who had wives and families that stuck by them - rare jems my boys!...keep em forever!

But hey, thats the business...if you cant play it - get the F out of the way - others want to try!

 

[avbug]

Sorry, I ain't got no sympathy if someone's not willing to put in one's dues. A thousand hours and complaining that one won't stomach the upcoming weather? Criminey. Does Foobar think he/she is going to drift into something stellar, rather than put in the same effort and circuitos route that many of us have done?

A thousand hours isn't quite enough experience to know how to properly close the aircraft entry door, let alone have ground to talk about the effort and price paid. If one isn't willing to go beyond the entry level, then what does it matter if one gives up. At least not much is invested.

Stick it out a bit longer and find out what it really takes to survive in the industry, and you'll realize that you haven't even begun to pay your dues, yet.

If you think that a regional or commuter is the only option, then you are very narrow-sighted. Good luck with future prospects; based on your comments, you've certainly made the right decision.

The idiotic suggestion that those of us who fly professionally are "morons," only speaks to the poster, Foobar. After all, who's the one who is quitting?

 

[350DRIVER]

That is a complete joke foobar, don't look for sympathy from this board. At 1,000 hours of flight time you surely have not put in your dues to make a statement calling "us" in this industry "morons" as you have stated. If you can't hang then QUIT and/or give up as you have done.. Many have quit and many more will quit so don't feel like you are leaving without accomplishing much in the industry.


Atleast a "few" of us don't have to quit and listen to a wife to make us stop flying..

wink wink


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[VNugget]

1000 hours is not his current time, as he stated.

Just of curiosity, what is it?