Entry level Corporate Salary?
06-18-2009, 11:44 AM
#32
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Flying Career
If you want to fly, go do it! Pay cash as you go. Don't borrow any money. Get your CFI, CFII, MEI as soon as you can, and do a lot of Instrument and Multi Engine instruction, but only if you like instructing. If you hate instructing, buy a cheap multi after you get your instrument rating and commercial amel, throttle it back to 45% power and fly cross country for 500 hours!
06-30-2009, 02:03 PM
#33
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Well said NowCorporate, If you want to fly then fly. There will always be a job to be had, you just have to be willing to accept opportunities when they present themselves. Everyone has to pay their dues in the beginning and if you worry about how much money you will make in the beginning you will just worry yourself to death. Remember pay and quality of life comes with experience (unless your one of the lucky ones that trips and falls into a great job early on). Good Luck
By pay dues you mean, fly for sh!t pay, fly fatigued, never home, and dangerous. Why does everyone have to do that? The problem is we accept this"paying dues" BS, when no one should ever have to fly under those conditions. Let's drop that attitude "since I did it, you have to do it" and we will all be better off.
06-30-2009, 02:13 PM
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06-30-2009, 03:12 PM
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By pay dues you mean, fly for sh!t pay, fly fatigued, never home, and dangerous. Why does everyone have to do that? The problem is we accept this"paying dues" BS, when no one should ever have to fly under those conditions. Let's drop that attitude "since I did it, you have to do it" and we will all be better off.
06-30-2009, 03:54 PM
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Well shady ops, I worked lineservice for a few years while going thru my ratings. every dime I had went into ratings somtimes living on overstock catering. I then rode right seat freight and eventually made pic and flew night cancelled checks . Eventually moved up to citations with the same 135 co. and did that for another 10yr. and finially got a great 91 gig. I paid my dues , and I would do anything to keep self entitlement low skill pilots such as you come across as out of the flying business.
And it's funny how you assume I am a "low skill pilot". You don't even know my name. You should explain yourself to avoid further embarrassment.
06-30-2009, 03:58 PM
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The only difference is what you define as a crap job at the time your doing it. Being employed with mesa might be a good first gig untill you move on, then it's a crap job.
I apoligize for the low skill comment , But you come across as a zero to hero pilot who wants to fly a gulfstream for a fortune 100 co. right out of college.
I apoligize for the low skill comment , But you come across as a zero to hero pilot who wants to fly a gulfstream for a fortune 100 co. right out of college.
Last edited by ce650; 06-30-2009 at 04:10 PM. Reason: being more mature
06-30-2009, 04:11 PM
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Nothing you say has any bearing on how I feel. In any case this isn't a debate about flight time. It is about how the divide between senior pilots and junior pilots weakens our profession. Your "I paid my dues attitude" is de-unifying. What you are saying is " I flew for crap pay, I flew fatigued, I worked for a bad employer, now it's your turn".
Out of curiosity, what do you consider low time?
06-30-2009, 04:16 PM
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de- unifying? how do you figure? What do I consider low time? depends on what the job is.....flying jumpers - 100tt is low time...airlines ATP mins at the least. company I work for,, 4 to 5k tt.
06-30-2009, 04:18 PM
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The only difference is what you define as a crap job at the time your doing it. Being employed with mesa might be a good first gig untill you move on, then it's a crap job.
I apoligize for the low skill comment , But you come across as a zero to hero pilot who wants to fly a gulfstream for a fortune 100 co. right out of college.
I apoligize for the low skill comment , But you come across as a zero to hero pilot who wants to fly a gulfstream for a fortune 100 co. right out of college.
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