Pilots are idiots???

[DC8 Flyer]

90% of the pilots out there aren't aviators, and aren't worth much...and more than a few mechanics fall in the same boat.

Wow! It is truly amazing that an airplane, anywhere in the world, gets off the ground, much less safely to it's destination without you at yoke.

Get over yourself bud, 99% of the pilots out there are twice the person and head and shoulders above you as a pilot.

 

[Some guy]

The department I work in for my company works very closely with the "ops" pilots all day everyday. We respect each other and treat each other as equals. I run into the occasional "lost" mechanics just as often as our Assistant Chief Pilots run into the scary pilots which isn't all that often.

I prefer to stay on the maintenance side of things. I'm good at my job and enjoy what I do. Someday I'll get my PP License, but it will be for my own leisure, not a career. I don't want to be a "Jack of all trades, Master of none".

I don't run into many technicians who want to be a pilot. I have however heard complaints about the pay differences. Most A&P jobs start at $12-$15. This might be a little more than the young low time pilots working commuters, but we top out (in some places if your lucky) at $30 an hour. Most pilots in time make much more.

SG

 

[avbug]

Wow! It is truly amazing that an airplane, anywhere in the world, gets off the ground, much less safely to it's destination without you at yoke.

Get over yourself bud, 99% of the pilots out there are twice the person and head and shoulders above you as a pilot.

You see? I said nothing about myself with respect to standing abilities as a mechanic or as a pilot...that puts you in that 90% worthless category, largely because your reading and comprehension skills are so poor. Don't feel bad. You're the majority.

 

[ArcticFlier]

Shall we discuss the person who single engine taxied a Bro into the terminal (literally)in SLC because he didn't understand the systems of the very aircraft he worked with every day?

It goes both ways Avbug, as I'm sure you'll point out. Although, one of your previous posts intimates otherwise.


AF