You know you are a regional FO when.....

[FirstMate]

you dont tell people the name of your company.... but rather the name of the code share you are flying lately.....United Express, USAir Express, etc...

Just respond, "USAir"....a few seconds pass...followed by a mumbled "Express".

 

[CrownandCoke]

.....who payes for a USA today? what a waste of 3 quarters....

I got 3 quarters from returning smartcarts...

 

[buyagoat]

still live with parents, and theres no hope of leaving ?

 

[BizPilot]

You're making $17,500 a year and have $65,000 in school loans at a 17.3% interest rate.

 

[JediNein]

When you get released from the interview for not being able to contain your laughter at the pay.

Interviewer: "We have the BEST contract in the industry . . ."
You: Snort, buwhah haa hah hah. . .
Interviewer: "But we signed the contract on September 11, 2001. . ."

As if that explained the pay for the first five years being worse than a moderately bad flight instructing job.

Or worse, the airline hires you anyways, and you accept.

 

[jumppilot03]

When you tell your friends that your job is so easy a caveman could do it.


Then they laugh when you have been furloughed twice and divorced more than that.

 

[405]

You (pilots) need to do something. If it's radical, then so be it. Screaming about it here here does absolutely no good. You're bitching to the other bitchers.

You guys are starting to sound like a bunch of dispatchers and you don't want that, do you?

 

[WalterSobchak]

As long as we are picking on regional FO's...I know it doesn't really fit with the flow of the thread, but this is kinda funny.

A couple weeks ago, I got a phone call from an ops agent telling me that the FO on one of my flights had left his rollaboard, his sunglasses, and his jacket behind at the gate in his "rush to get the flight out after the lifting of a flow program" (how noble, eh?). The ops agent wanted me to pass on a message that they were forwarding the stuff to where they were headed on the next flight out (which was 15 minutes behind them). ACARS message I sent went as follows:

AS IM SURE YOU
ARE AWARE BY NOW...
FO LEFT BEHIND HIS STUFF.
ROLLABOARD...SUNGLASSES...JACKET.
IS 15 MIN BEHIND YOU ON FLT
XXXX. CREW OF THAT FLT HAS IT.
AS OF NOW THEY ARE ARRIVING
GATE XXX. IF UNABLE TO PICK UP
THEY WILL LEAVE IT ALL AT CREW LOUNGE.
TOLD STATION TO KEEP THE HAIR GEL
AND IPOD FOR THEIR TROUBLE.

Captain sent this as response:

FO SAYS THX HE WILL MEET FLT XXXX
GOOD THNG HE RMBRD HIS BACKPAK
IT HAS HIS BACKUP HAIR GEL

It happened...really.

And, uh, hey 405...I'm not bitching. No workgroup could ever outbitch pilots.

Kidding, guys...

 

[CoATP]

If you were still in flight school when this thread started and it convinced you that your choice of careers was cool and worth all of the $$$$$$.

 

[405]

If you were still in flight school when this thread started and it convinced you that your choice of careers was cool and worth all of the $$$$$$.

I'll take a stab at finishing this:

Someone lied to you.

That's way too many dollar signs too. It should be $.