Whats so great about working at a major?

[instructordude]

Dude,

Either you are joking, or you really are a true dork.

No jokes. I guess I'm a dork. A proud happy dork though.

 

[Dumb Pilot]

Yeah it is me. Whats wrong with a smile for doing something I love. Frankly the way I look at my job is the company lets me fly the jet for free but pays me by the day to sit in the airport or hotel. I'm having a blast and my avatar says it all. Sorry about enjoying myself.

I'm starting to think that you have people helping you come up with all this idiocy post after post, there is no way that you can be that proficient of an Idiot

 

[FLYLOW22]

No jokes. I guess I'm a dork. A proud happy dork though.

Just wait till you get some real responsibilities in life... and bills. This whole aviation summer camp, wanna hump, hump fun you are having won't seem all that much fun anymore.

Really... take it from another former dork from the 90's.

 

[Sedona16]

No jokes. I guess I'm a dork. A proud happy dork though.

Please tell me your not at Delta?!

 

[nyboilermaker]

Nevermind.

 

[Jmoney]

Dork....-

No jokes. I guess I'm a dork. A proud happy dork though.

You are a truly pathetic, retarded person. I can't believe they would let you operate a bicycle, much less an aircraft of any sort!

-YOU SUCK!

 

[400ADude]

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[Mud Eagle]

From a zoomie who has never landed on the boat at night after a 3.5. LOL....

We're not talking about landing on a ship. We're talking about the stick-and-rudder aspects of flying a 4th (or 5th) generation fighter...which is, they're very easy to fly and maneuver.

 

[Mamma]

I'm away from home more than all of them except the super tanker engineer. Did I mention he has a pension?

Do you have the number to that super tanker school?

 

[Morning Wood]

You dont fly with 21 year old know it all kids that you have to flight instruct for the rest of your career (always worried about an altitude bust, etc and your ticket/job) while you know they are thinking they will be at a "real" airline in a year or two and dont mind talking about it all day.

The CO guys that landed on the the taxiway in EWR weren't 21 year old kids.

 

[Sedona16]

The CO guys that landed on the the taxiway in EWR weren't 21 year old kids.

Guys flying at the majors are not immune to mistakes....they just make them a whole lot less than a regional captain and his 21 year old student learning how to fly a CRJ "heavy".

 

[FlyByNight1]

Guys flying at the majors are not immune to mistakes....they just make them a whole lot less than a regional captain and his 21 year old student learning how to fly a CRJ "heavy".

yeah, and thats the way its always been, and the way it will continue to be. Now I know everyone here was born 40 years old with 4 stripes and 20,000 hours, but remember, most mortals were 21 and new to the industry at some point. The biggest problem that I see is a lack of hand-flown turbo props out there for young guys to cut their teeth on. everyone now-a-days goes from a cessna to an Embraer overnight. I would think that would require some instruction.

 

[aircowboy]

I have a bone to pick with some of the posters. I know this will offend some people, but not all people are "cut from the same cloth." There are all types of people that like different types of flying. I for one like flying the small regional jets and turboprops. It seems some people only got into this profession to fly the large jets. We don't give you a hard time because you want to be a captain on a 777 flying internationally, so don't catagorize us all as short sighted just because we enjoy what we do no matter how many zeros we lack on our W-2 and our plane is smaller or has props. Also, there are alot of people out there that are happy with the simple things in life and don't have to have a 300k house and a BMW along with every gadget ever invented. All I am saying is, don't go thinking we all want to be at a major because not all of us do. Good luck to everybody in the pursuit of what they want out of their career.

CM

Where in the hell did you find a house for 300K????

 

[spacecadet1]

It's funny that someone thinks 300K is alot for a house. I guess it shows just how far we have fallen.

 

[spacecadet1]

Unless you live somewhere in the midwest or south in a small town where people are taught that the earth was created 5,000 yrs ago, expect to pay more than 300K.

 

[FlyByNight1]

Unless you live somewhere in the midwest or south in a small town where people are taught that the earth was created 5,000 yrs ago, expect to pay more than 300K.

lol, i've never heard it said any better!!!

 

[pinn82]

Maybe I was the only one on this message board that thought that the guys friends were talking about pay in terms of net pay not gross pay. Maybe i'm wrong.