Anything other than flight instructing?
11-24-2009, 01:51 PM
#61
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I've been instructing for 2 1/2 years now and it looks like I'll be instructing for many more. I do enjoy it but but tooling around doing primary instruction in a PA28 does wear one down, mentally. I am having a hard time "finding" multi time and the regionals that are taking apps right now all require 500 multi. I'm hoping to purchase some block hours maybe next spring after I save some money, but that will still put me far below 500.
Maybe I'll get a lucky break someday!
Maybe I'll get a lucky break someday!
03-07-2014, 03:57 PM
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Position: Regional Airline Captain
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Just thought I'd follow up on this.
Four and a half years after I started this thread I'm working for a regional, holding the line and pretty happy with life. I did two long years at TransPac, still somewhat bitter about how I was treated there, but things are fairly good now.
The people who said that being at a regional is the same as flight instruction are crazy. Sure there are annoyances here, waiting for ramp agents to marshal us into a gate, understaffed de-ice pads, the occasional difficult captain. But compared to training Chinese guys in 110 degree heat 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, this is a cakewalk.
It gets better folks!
Four and a half years after I started this thread I'm working for a regional, holding the line and pretty happy with life. I did two long years at TransPac, still somewhat bitter about how I was treated there, but things are fairly good now.
The people who said that being at a regional is the same as flight instruction are crazy. Sure there are annoyances here, waiting for ramp agents to marshal us into a gate, understaffed de-ice pads, the occasional difficult captain. But compared to training Chinese guys in 110 degree heat 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, this is a cakewalk.
It gets better folks!
03-07-2014, 04:20 PM
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Just thought I'd follow up on this.
Four and a half years after I started this thread I'm working for a regional, holding the line and pretty happy with life. I did two long years at TransPac, still somewhat bitter about how I was treated there, but things are fairly good now.
The people who said that being at a regional is the same as flight instruction are crazy. Sure there are annoyances here, waiting for ramp agents to marshal us into a gate, understaffed de-ice pads, the occasional difficult captain. But compared to training Chinese guys in 110 degree heat 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, this is a cakewalk.
It gets better folks!
Four and a half years after I started this thread I'm working for a regional, holding the line and pretty happy with life. I did two long years at TransPac, still somewhat bitter about how I was treated there, but things are fairly good now.
The people who said that being at a regional is the same as flight instruction are crazy. Sure there are annoyances here, waiting for ramp agents to marshal us into a gate, understaffed de-ice pads, the occasional difficult captain. But compared to training Chinese guys in 110 degree heat 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, this is a cakewalk.
It gets better folks!
03-07-2014, 04:29 PM
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if airline market laws change and they are allowed to fly routes over here and not just go to/from one american city to their home country. Ill try and find the articles many have posted on this subject before. But I believe it was possible change in cabotage laws that had been proposed, or expected to change in the near future.
03-07-2014, 08:44 PM
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Just thought I'd follow up on this.
Four and a half years after I started this thread I'm working for a regional, holding the line and pretty happy with life. I did two long years at TransPac, still somewhat bitter about how I was treated there, but things are fairly good now.
The people who said that being at a regional is the same as flight instruction are crazy. Sure there are annoyances here, waiting for ramp agents to marshal us into a gate, understaffed de-ice pads, the occasional difficult captain. But compared to training Chinese guys in 110 degree heat 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, this is a cakewalk.
It gets better folks!
Four and a half years after I started this thread I'm working for a regional, holding the line and pretty happy with life. I did two long years at TransPac, still somewhat bitter about how I was treated there, but things are fairly good now.
The people who said that being at a regional is the same as flight instruction are crazy. Sure there are annoyances here, waiting for ramp agents to marshal us into a gate, understaffed de-ice pads, the occasional difficult captain. But compared to training Chinese guys in 110 degree heat 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, this is a cakewalk.
It gets better folks!
03-07-2014, 08:59 PM
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The people who said that being at a regional is the same as flight instruction are crazy. Sure there are annoyances here, waiting for ramp agents to marshal us into a gate, understaffed de-ice pads, the occasional difficult captain. But compared to training Chinese guys in 110 degree heat 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, this is a cakewalk.
03-07-2014, 09:40 PM
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Just thought I'd follow up on this.
Four and a half years after I started this thread I'm working for a regional, holding the line and pretty happy with life. I did two long years at TransPac, still somewhat bitter about how I was treated there, but things are fairly good now.
The people who said that being at a regional is the same as flight instruction are crazy. Sure there are annoyances here, waiting for ramp agents to marshal us into a gate, understaffed de-ice pads, the occasional difficult captain. But compared to training Chinese guys in 110 degree heat 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, this is a cakewalk.
It gets better folks!
Four and a half years after I started this thread I'm working for a regional, holding the line and pretty happy with life. I did two long years at TransPac, still somewhat bitter about how I was treated there, but things are fairly good now.
The people who said that being at a regional is the same as flight instruction are crazy. Sure there are annoyances here, waiting for ramp agents to marshal us into a gate, understaffed de-ice pads, the occasional difficult captain. But compared to training Chinese guys in 110 degree heat 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, this is a cakewalk.
It gets better folks!
When I read your original post I thought holy crap that sounds JUST like where I'm teaching at the moment: 12-14 hour days, 5-7 days a week, stress of stagechecks/checkrides and students failing them, all for crap pay. Unfortunately, where I'm at we do A LOT of training in sims and are 141 without formal ground school, so we have to meet all fo the 141 ground requirements teaching one on one, which means we get only 35-40 hours of flight time in a good month.
After dealing with this for the past two years, and then coming on these forums and seeing all of the depressing stuff about the airlines, I was starting to wonder if I should just quit flying altogether.
Its good to see it does get better if I just hang in there
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