The Wall Street Journal is on to us...
#21
I think it would be great if the airlines help pilot to pay for their training or the loans they made during training. The fact is that the cost of training and repaying those loans keep a lot of pilots out of this career longer. I am a parent and going through a 141 program in Oregon on financial aid. The extra money I get after paying for books and everything else hardly pays for a few hours of time, leaving the rest to come from my own pocket (which is about the size of the coin pocket on a pair of Levis). I not saying that paying for this myself is bad but I could be flying a lot more (finishing the program faster) if an airline was to sponsor or assist with top tier students flight fees.
I realize that airlines will not be doing this, but many companies sponsor students in their schooling (with a contract of course) and it takes a lot of the stess out of it for them.
I realize that airlines will not be doing this, but many companies sponsor students in their schooling (with a contract of course) and it takes a lot of the stess out of it for them.
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#22
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"Ultimately the U.S. may have to adopt new, quicker training models for pilots, Mr. Darby says, and airlines may have to start paying for early schooling for pilots and raise starting salaries for pilots, currently as low as $24,000 a year."
I think the above amount is an understatement. Some airlines don't even have their pilots reach that in a year. They need to write more on the regional envirnment to let the public know that is going on... I believe that the public will open their eyes on the lack of some pilots expirience and will choose other airlines to fly.
Honestly if an airline wants the best pilots they need to bring the pay up. If the airline brings the first year pay up $10 more an hours. There will be people (quality people) beating down the door to go there. That is a whole other debate...... Oh yeah and management would never go for it....
I think the above amount is an understatement. Some airlines don't even have their pilots reach that in a year. They need to write more on the regional envirnment to let the public know that is going on... I believe that the public will open their eyes on the lack of some pilots expirience and will choose other airlines to fly.
Honestly if an airline wants the best pilots they need to bring the pay up. If the airline brings the first year pay up $10 more an hours. There will be people (quality people) beating down the door to go there. That is a whole other debate...... Oh yeah and management would never go for it....
#23
"Several studies have found a U-shaped curve: Accident rates tend to be higher for less-experienced pilots, and for older pilots as well. Older pilots, the thinking goes, may have become complacent."
Too bad Congress didn't see this data before passing age 65. Thanks for 5 more years at a regional, you old coots.
Too bad Congress didn't see this data before passing age 65. Thanks for 5 more years at a regional, you old coots.
#24
Yes, I know most new regional FOs don't have much experience these days. I'm just saying all FOs don't come from the same tree.
#25
The problem now is that you have the blind leading the blind. You have 2000 hour TT captains being paired with 250 hour TT FO's. Maybe the Captain was hired with 1200 TT from Florida never having seen a winter. Now he's upgraded and experiencing his first winter with an FO who may have never seen a cloud. This is where people are worried. I am. The experience level can no longer be expected to be in the left seat. Working for a major, nearly every Captain I fly with has at least 20 years with the company. This is nearly the age of a new hire FO at a regional.
Also, many young FO's I see through jumpseating, etc., also lack the maturity of a professional. They don't want to hear "how to do it" from the guy in the left seat. That's a shame because that's how you get the experience from which you will make your command decisions some day.
#26
Are FOs really as bad as everyone is saying? Or are we taking the minorities problems and pinning it on the group? I'm hearing lots of FO bashing lately and I don't understand why people are seeing the FO as an unruly child that needs to be disciplined and supervised by the captain. I am all for learning from Captains and more experienced pilots. There are a lot of pilots out there that are smarter than me and I happy to learn from them. But being a first officer myself I feel like I am a second rate citizen sometimes and that I have prove that I can even keep the blue side up.
I don't remember this culture in the corporate world where we considered the first officer as a second in command or a Deputy Captain if you will. Doesn't it seem like we are going back to the days when Captain was God and the 'copilot' was there to do whatever he said without question? If I remember correctly that didn't work out so well.
I don't remember this culture in the corporate world where we considered the first officer as a second in command or a Deputy Captain if you will. Doesn't it seem like we are going back to the days when Captain was God and the 'copilot' was there to do whatever he said without question? If I remember correctly that didn't work out so well.
#27
"Several studies have found a U-shaped curve: Accident rates tend to be higher for less-experienced pilots, and for older pilots as well. Older pilots, the thinking goes, may have become complacent."
Too bad Congress didn't see this data before passing age 65. Thanks for 5 more years at a regional, you old coots.
Too bad Congress didn't see this data before passing age 65. Thanks for 5 more years at a regional, you old coots.
#28
Are FOs really as bad as everyone is saying? Or are we taking the minorities problems and pinning it on the group? I'm hearing lots of FO bashing lately and I don't understand why people are seeing the FO as an unruly child that needs to be disciplined and supervised by the captain. I am all for learning from Captains and more experienced pilots. There are a lot of pilots out there that are smarter than me and I happy to learn from them. But being a first officer myself I feel like I am a second rate citizen sometimes and that I have prove that I can even keep the blue side up.
I don't remember this culture in the corporate world where we considered the first officer as a second in command or a Deputy Captain if you will. Doesn't it seem like we are going back to the days when Captain was God and the 'copilot' was there to do whatever he said without question? If I remember correctly that didn't work out so well.
I don't remember this culture in the corporate world where we considered the first officer as a second in command or a Deputy Captain if you will. Doesn't it seem like we are going back to the days when Captain was God and the 'copilot' was there to do whatever he said without question? If I remember correctly that didn't work out so well.
#29
I wrote a letter to the editor about some of the complaints. My biggest complaint was the mentioned "Younger" less experienced pilots. Younger does not mean less experienced, all the time.
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