Another Buy to Fly Program

I've grown out of the Seneca and became an "exhaulted one" in the Centurion.

Bow down, beeotch!
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I'll probably write something tonight. I went out to Buffalo Wild Wings with Kristie for NTN, hot wings and beer, came back home at 7:30pm and slept until 8am. I've been fighting off a bug and I think the spicy food plus beer plus an unreasonable amount of sleep actually worked!
 
Well, depending on motivational factors today, I might get off my duff and start on it. I'll send it to you, Matt and Don. Feel free to proofread it and add to it.
 
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Beats me, but I am uber sick of sorting through threads about PFT, SIC "Programs", headsets, and flight schools. It's getting way old. Geeeeeez....
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I agree 100%.... I am sick of it too. I have found through my six or so months of research to avoid my CFI that it is impossible to find a short cut in aviation. Unless your Dad owns a Seneca, King Air, or Citation... you're out of luck. (By the way...I am now a CFI)
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However, for every person out there who agrees with me, and the rest of this forum about being sick of the "pay to be a air•" operations... there are people who sign up for them! I know a guy from our flight school out here that just signed up for 50 hrs of METRO II time with Key Lime.... I'm half tempted to remove his upper torso before he heads out to Colorado for that stint
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Wow, that's a big coincidence. I get an incredible amount of email from employers pulling out their hair while trying to find low time pilots with 50 hours of metroliner time.

Could you put me in contact with him?
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Hmmm, maybe I'll start my own PFT, get independently wealthy, buy a King Air, build some time, and THEN apply to the regionals... sort of a roundabout way, but hey, if they can charge 33k for 200 hours of FE time in a 727, it seems like one can dupe people into about anything.
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Haha...no kidding. It's amazing to see how many people are stupid enough to sign up for these programs. Maybe some are not stupid, just under educated on the subject, but the majority are Commercial AMEL pilots, who know by that stage of their training that these programs are a rip off!
 
I'll be honest, when I first started reading this site I didn't really know what the big damn deal was about paying for training, everyone does that right? well, it was explained to me as this: With programs like Gulfstream, you are paying them to do something that they would normally have to pay someone else to do. Therefore, you are taking a job away from a paid and required crew member, which makes PFJ akin to scabbing. It also keeps pilot salaries low because by actually paying the company, you are saving them the money of having to pay a pilot. Imagine if a cop had to pay the city for his job. It's no different.
 
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I'll be honest, when I first started reading this site I didn't really know what the big damn deal was about paying for training, everyone does that right? well, it was explained to me as this: With programs like Gulfstream, you are paying them to do something that they would normally have to pay someone else to do. Therefore, you are taking a job away from a paid and required crew member, which makes PFJ akin to scabbing. It also keeps pilot salaries low because by actually paying the company, you are saving them the money of having to pay a pilot. Imagine if a cop had to pay the city for his job. It's no different.

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excellent job of defining how utterly WRONG PFT/PFJ is!
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Seriously, and she's not even a pilot! She's only dating a super anti-current wanna be with a scarry avatar!
 
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I've grown out of the Seneca and became an "exhaulted one" in the Centurion.

Bow down, beeotch!
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The Angles sing, the Heavens part and which ever God (or gods) you happen to worship at the time comes down to hold your hand so as to keep pesky things like weather or fuel from standing in your way. All hale, exhault, worship, etc. the untouchable 210 and her "pilots."

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If you were boarding an airplane and saw that John Herreshoff was the captain, would you:

a) Run, not walk, back to the gate

or

b) Say, "Party on!" and find your seat

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Wrote another poorly worded 'position paper' on PFJ/PFT. It's not officially 'live' yet, but here it is at http://jetcareers.com/pfj.htm


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Looks good to me. Once the "grammar police" go over it, I think it's ready to go live.
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[/ QUOTE ]yea.. I'm working on that with him! haha
 
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If you were boarding an airplane and saw that John Herreshoff was the captain, would you:

a) Run, not walk, back to the gate

or

b) Say, "Party on!" and find your seat

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B. I've met John a couple times...he's not as mean as he looks!
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