The glory days are over - What do you think?

[Flyerjosh]

Well you might look in this thread.

http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=79438

Sorry. In the 3000 posts a day that get made that thread slipped me by.

 

[FN FAL]

Sorry. In the 3000 posts a day that get made that thread slipped me by.

That's no reason to get persneckity.

 

[GogglesPisano]

For Barry Schiff, cheerleader of GA for AOPA, to write an article like this is truly telling. I'm fairly sure you will not see it taped to a wall at a flight school desperate for dollars better spent on an MBA or graduate school.

Right on Barry! We need more articles like this to counter the Kit Darby propaganda and every other ad you read in Flying magazine.

 

[pilotyip]

Remember fly because you like to and this a great career. I think I agree qwith SSDD

 

[FN FAL]

Remember fly because you like to and this a great career. I think I agree qwith SSDD

The only time a chicken de-boner got killed was on the drive to/from work or when a co-worker came back to work with a shotgun after getting fired. How many pilots do you know came back to work with a shotgun after getting fired? None? Well, there you have it, chicken de-boners love their jobs more than pilots.

 

[Metro752]

...........I'm left with the distinct impression that you do not read much at all.

I sure don't read AOPA after they couldn't save Meigs Field, but I sure do read plenty, and pardon me if my grammar and spelling leaves you with the impression I dun't reeed much, cuz u no dis is a massage bored! I didn't know i wuz bein grayded...

The point is .......... Personally I don't care what you think of him ......... Some of his stuff I've enjoyed, other I have not. Makes no difference to me what you think. ......... The point is that this guy, with a lifetime of experience in the airline business wrote an article which contains a great deal of truth and echos the sentiments or a great many people in the industry. Yet you dismiss it as being completely inaccurate, and make some infantile and misinformed comments about him being "jealous" of the new technology. OUt of what orifice did you pull that?

I don't expect you to care about what I think, thats why I used the word OPINION. I am not interested in some retired guy whining about all the problems today, preaching gloom and doom. If I want to hear some old guy whine about modern times, I have my own father to listen to (yes I ended the sentence with a preposition )

Finally, I have no "beef" with you, and no beef with Barry Schiff. I just wanted to comment .......

I think Barry Schiff is an unhappy old man, and what he really means is, HIS GLORY DAYS are over.

This forum highlights a lot of the negative things, and a good deal of it is exagerated. Glory Days are over. Ha!

What, does this old grump expect all of us to walk around unhappy? He's mad he never got to play with all the cool new technology, and just hears about it now.

...... That I am tired of hearing and reading about all the gloom and doom and whining. This is like any other internet message board, people post their opinions, they usually mean nothing, like mine, and then others make their opinions known.

Please don't take this as a personal attack A Squared, I do bow out to you in terms of knowledge in regards to professional aviation. Hell I'd bow out to most people who post here.

 

[pilotyip]

Right on Metro, you are singing my tune. I am teaching my grandson to fly and he elects to pursue a professional flying career like his father and grandfather, I will be most supportive and also recommend he not go to college full-time. I still feel this is a fantastic career. I work with too many people who love what they do. Perhaps that is because for many of them it is a second career and thy have something to compare it to

 

[FN FAL]

The "glory days" are over because you can't lift your pinkey while lifting a cup of tea and telling your relatives or friends that you fly a jet airliner...boo hoo.

Regional jet airlines have proven that even a monkey can fly an airplane.

Whatever.

 

[Skyline]

Love of the job

The only time a chicken de-boner got killed was on the drive to/from work or when a co-worker came back to work with a shotgun after getting fired. How many pilots do you know came back to work with a shotgun after getting fired? None? Well, there you have it, chicken de-boners love their jobs more than pilots.

I wouldn't say that pilots love their jobs as much as they love the dream of the job.

SKyHigh

 

[Princedietrich]

Actually the chicken de-boner can afford shells for the shotgun, a pilot would use that money to get a few meager calories into his starving gullet.

Also, those guys back in the days of the DC3 and the Convairs probably were doing it for the same wage as the kids (yes, I used the word KIDS because that's what they are) in the RJs. But let's face it, 19k a year back in the 60s was a frekin fortune.

The entire aviation industry is pretty much a joke, and not a very funny one. Pilot are literally worked to death, either through burnout and physiological collapse from the long exhausting hours, or through a fatal crash because the half-arsed management of the airlines won't pay up for decent training and maintenance. It makes me wonder why I'm still in this industry.

Frankly, I want out. I'm working on my education to get out too.