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Screaming_Emu said:
experience at a regional is valued much more than any of those jobs you listed above, no matter how well they pay.
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Eh, that's debatable. Just because you flew at a regional doesn't mean your experience is any better than the other jobs that are out there. And if your goal is to fly for a major, you'll make it there regardless if you put your mind to it. In the meantime, I'll take the higher pay.
 
staledog said:
Eh, that's debatable. Just because you flew at a regional doesn't mean your experience is any better than the other jobs that are out there. And if your goal is to fly for a major, you'll make it there regardless if you put your mind to it. In the meantime, I'll take the higher pay.
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Ill agree that its debatable, but I guarantee you won't end up there dropping meat missiles. At least, not as your only job. In my mind, there's no better way to prove you can do a job then by doing the exact same job somewhere else.

That being said, being an RJ pilot doesn't automatically mean you'll make it to/deserve a mainline job.

On a somewhat related topic:

Resumes are important. They show what kind of experience a person has had and whether or not they meet the qualifications of the job they are interviewing for. But what if as a way of offering interviews, people from hiring department at major airlines simply rode around on the jumpseat, pretending to be commuters. If they like what they saw, they offer that pilot the chance to come interview at their company.

In my opinion, what better way to see how someone does their job then actually watching them do it. It'll also give you an idea what type of personality that person has at work and whether you would want to sit next to them during a 4 day trip.

Has anybody ever done this? Does it sound like a good idea to anyone else?
 
Screaming_Emu said:
That being said, being an RJ pilot doesn't automatically mean you'll make it to/deserve a mainline job.
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Very important to realize the above. You don't know how many people I've had frank discussions with about even though they've spend umpty-ump thousand hours flying a CRJ, with training failures, lack of higher education (from an accredited institution, not "Walden") and crap on their record, it's not necessarily "Unfairness of the System" (tm) that is going to hold them back.


In my opinion, what better way to see how someone does their job then actually watching them do it. It'll also give you an idea what type of personality that person has at work and whether you would want to sit next to them during a 4 day trip.

Has anybody ever done this? Does it sound like a good idea to anyone else?
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While I was at Skyway, on an MD-88 jumpseat to MCO, I spend the leg talking to the crew and later in flight, he tells me that he's familiar with JC and that he's also a line check airmen that would be willing to walk my stuff into the manager of pilot selection.

You NEVER know who you're talking to and you never know what that person can (or will not) do for you. Both online and offline.

Hell, I drank a couple cocktails with Cecil Ewell at American and didn't know who the hell he was until I got his business card later in the conversation.

Networking opportunities abound, you just have to be prepared.
 
I'm living in base on first year pay and fly about 35 hours a month and have flown only 3 four day trips including IOE. My experience as a first year regional FO is substantially different than what the media and many pilots seem to sensationalize. I agree that the pay is unacceptable, but what is anyone going to be able to do about it? Absolutely nothing.

I haven't experienced crash pads, because I didn't want to - so I moved.
 
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