blzr
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I think there are an awful lot of us "airline" types trying to make the move. Unfortunately there seems to be quite a bias against us due to severe stereotypes. I think a lot of the jobs we would like to have are probably much better than airline jobs, and certainly some are worse.
Unfortunately, one of the first questions was about the airline stereotype and my feelings about the job since the airplane salesman had prejudiced the purchaser against airline types. One of them told me the salesman specifically mentioned being leary of airline types because they just wanna show up, fly and go home. It's very hard to convince someone otherwise that you're one of the few who's willing to actually work hard and take pride in being more involved in the operations if they have a pre-concieved attitude about you.
I suspect the hardest/most frustrating part of corporate is getting the job! If we can get past that it should be good.
Good luck.
The preconcieved notions within the corp. world are real. Most airline pilots are disciplined in the cockpit and it shows alot more when you fly with a lifer corp. pilot. I am not by any means like the "Roger Ramjet" check airmen we has back at the airlines who nitpick Everything we did in the cockpit, but I may certainly come across that way to some that I fly with.
Some of the pilots I fly with do things different every time, don't fly stabalized approaches because they feel they are boaring, insist on doing everything in the cockpit including setting the altitude and operating the gear and using the radio when in the left seat.
Some see CRM as a crutch for amature pilots and see checklists as nothing more than a sunvisor.
I think it pisses off some corp pilots to see discipline in the cockpit because it makes them feel inferior in some instances so the myth about the airline pilot perpetuates on and on.