Southern Air Interview
12-02-2016, 06:35 AM
#904
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: 777, sofa
Posts: 1,183
j/k
Seriously guys, don't go to SAI. Its not going to be a shortcut to a major. Its not going to be a shortcut to UPS or FedEx. The pay is going to suck. The schedules are going to suck. Your family life is going to suck. If you don't have a family, your girlfriend is going to dump you because you're never around. Your sleep patterns are going to get royally screwed up. And not just like doing a couple red eyes or CDO's back to back. Your sleep periods are going to rotate around the clock for as long as you work for SAI. When you get home it doesn't stop; you fall asleep in the middle of the day and are up all night. By the time you get back on a 'normal' circadian rhythm its time to go back to work.
If you are divorced, have no kids or no relationship with your kids, have no girlfriend, have no family attachments, have no desire to form permanent human relationships, if you have a troubled relationship with alcohol, if you suffer from insomnia already, if you have misanthropic tendencies, if you have low self-esteem and don't think you deserve better, if you love CVG, if you don't need decent health care coverage or retirement contributions, then SAI might be for you.
But not if you can get a job delivering pizzas for Domino's. Or working the graveyard shift at 7-11.
12-02-2016, 08:49 AM
#906
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Position: Fetal and Fatigued
Posts: 352
If you are divorced, have no kids or no relationship with your kids, have no girlfriend, have no family attachments, have no desire to form permanent human relationships, if you have a troubled relationship with alcohol, if you suffer from insomnia already, if you have misanthropic tendencies, if you have low self-esteem and don't think you deserve better, if you love CVG, if you don't need decent health care coverage or retirement contributions, then SAI might be for you.
But not if you can get a job delivering pizzas for Domino's. Or working the graveyard shift at 7-11.
This wins the internet for the day!
12-02-2016, 11:05 AM
#907
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2012
Posts: 106
Especially when UAL is hiring. Due to United's much bigger pilot group they have a much higher number of pilots with DUI's, domestic violence, tax evasion, child molestation, child porn, etc in their background (after being hired of course). Just to give you an idea of the superior intellect of UAL pilots, they recently had a captain charged with running numerous brothels in Houston. By comparison, Southern pilots aren't smart enough to turn their hooker habit into a profitable business. They just remain customers for lack of seeing the opportunities that abound. Lol
Too bad he wasn't wearing his captain hat. http://www.chron.com/houston/article/United-pilot-charged-with-running-prostitution-7212705.php
12-02-2016, 05:14 PM
#908
Under paid triple monkey
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: 777 Bunk
Posts: 35
Are DUI's a felony?
j/k
Seriously guys, don't go to SAI. Its not going to be a shortcut to a major. Its not going to be a shortcut to UPS or FedEx. The pay is going to suck. The schedules are going to suck. Your family life is going to suck. If you don't have a family, your girlfriend is going to dump you because you're never around. Your sleep patterns are going to get royally screwed up. And not just like doing a couple red eyes or CDO's back to back. Your sleep periods are going to rotate around the clock for as long as you work for SAI. When you get home it doesn't stop; you fall asleep in the middle of the day and are up all night. By the time you get back on a 'normal' circadian rhythm its time to go back to work.
If you are divorced, have no kids or no relationship with your kids, have no girlfriend, have no family attachments, have no desire to form permanent human relationships, if you have a troubled relationship with alcohol, if you suffer from insomnia already, if you have misanthropic tendencies, if you have low self-esteem and don't think you deserve better, if you love CVG, if you don't need decent health care coverage or retirement contributions, then SAI might be for you.
But not if you can get a job delivering pizzas for Domino's. Or working the graveyard shift at 7-11.
j/k
Seriously guys, don't go to SAI. Its not going to be a shortcut to a major. Its not going to be a shortcut to UPS or FedEx. The pay is going to suck. The schedules are going to suck. Your family life is going to suck. If you don't have a family, your girlfriend is going to dump you because you're never around. Your sleep patterns are going to get royally screwed up. And not just like doing a couple red eyes or CDO's back to back. Your sleep periods are going to rotate around the clock for as long as you work for SAI. When you get home it doesn't stop; you fall asleep in the middle of the day and are up all night. By the time you get back on a 'normal' circadian rhythm its time to go back to work.
If you are divorced, have no kids or no relationship with your kids, have no girlfriend, have no family attachments, have no desire to form permanent human relationships, if you have a troubled relationship with alcohol, if you suffer from insomnia already, if you have misanthropic tendencies, if you have low self-esteem and don't think you deserve better, if you love CVG, if you don't need decent health care coverage or retirement contributions, then SAI might be for you.
But not if you can get a job delivering pizzas for Domino's. Or working the graveyard shift at 7-11.
12-02-2016, 11:04 PM
#909
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2006
Position: B777; Left Seat.
Posts: 253
I would encourage anyone with a strong constitution, who can weather a storm of what Robthree has adequately described, to swing through Southern Air for a type rating, enroute to somewhere else. Each pilot is in his/her unique situation. If it works for you (temporarily), then I recommend that you give it a whirl, but don't plan to stay.
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