"It's not always about the pay, I have a lot of friends who are airline pilots, and they love it."

I'm curious how many regional airlines fly airplanes with something even remotely approaching a G1000. I'm also curious how many are approved for an ipad as an EFB. We're G600 glass and might have ipads approved with the next revision of the GOM, but it took a few thousand hours of flying the biggest flying pos's on the planet /U and /A to be able to fly these. Learning in glass would have been a massive disservice, and would have done considerably less to prepare me for commercial flying.
 
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Did someone say pilot shortage?
 
jrh said:
You all make fun of how dumb this kid is. Like he must be crazy to want to be a pilot. Yet (the majority of) you keep showing up to work...as a pilot.

Remind me again, who's the sucker here?
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For starters, the cost to become a commercial pilot has doubled since I started flight training in 2001. Regional (Commuter) pay has been hovered at around the same pay rate in that same time period. There is a point where the "love of the sky" isn't worth the kick in the nuts when you see the direct deposit hit on Friday.
 
z987k said:
I'm curious how many regional airlines fly airplanes with something even remotely approaching a G1000. I'm also curious how many are approved for an ipad as an EFB. We're G600 glass and might have ipads approved with the next revision of the GOM, but it took a few thousand hours of flying the biggest flying pos's on the planet /U and /A to be able to fly these. Learning in glass would have been a massive disservice, and would have done considerably less to prepare me for commercial flying.
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Not to mention if said glass wonder decides they want to check out the other side of the airfield someday. Going from analog to glass is MUCH easier than going from glass to analog.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Yup. I got over the "non money" aspect of this job about 2 years in. Now FUPM and then let me go home.

That being said, the flying part does suck less than most other jobs that I can think of.
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You might say that you don't actually get paid for the flying, it's all the other ancillary stuff.

(better duty rigs NOW!)
 
z987k said:
I'm curious how many regional airlines fly airplanes with something even remotely approaching a G1000. I'm also curious how many are approved for an ipad as an EFB. We're G600 glass and might have ipads approved with the next revision of the GOM, but it took a few thousand hours of flying the biggest flying pos's on the planet /U and /A to be able to fly these. Learning in glass would have been a massive disservice, and would have done considerably less to prepare me for commercial flying.
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I'd say few airliners (regional or otherwise) have something that looks like a G1000. I'd say the next generation of aircraft, (not talking NextGen 73's or Airbus320s) will incorporate this. As for Ipads, I can only say that for the last year or so XJT has been looking into it. EVERYTHING comes down to $$$. They'll have to weight the pros and cons.
 
Baronman said:
I'd say few airliners (regional or otherwise) have something that looks like a G1000. I'd say the next generation of aircraft, (not talking NextGen 73's or Airbus320s) will incorporate this. As for Ipads, I can only say that for the last year or so XJT has been looking into it. EVERYTHING comes down to $$$. They'll have to weight the pros and cons.
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Uh huh. Any how many fresh pilots will be flying any of those? I'll take a guess at right around 0. You're still going to have to slog it out in some POS for a couple thousand. And that big steaming POS will have something akin to a six pack, and if you're lucky a FMS/GPS type thing that slaves to the HSI.
 
mojo6911 said:
There is a point where the "love of the sky" isn't worth the kick in the nuts when you see the direct deposit hit on Friday.
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Thats assuming too that your company actually remembers to pay you, ala Colgan a number of times that was posted here.

GypsyPilot said:
Well, I work at one of the largest regionals, and they had me flying this at first:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Atlant-Soyuz-Airlines/Embraer-EMB-120RT-Brasilia/1257463/L/
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When your company replaced their Metro's with those, they handed some of them down to the cargo operation down at PHX they operated, where we at the time still flew one of that company's original PA-31-350s from back in the 1970s as a cargo bird.
 
MikeD said:
Thats assuming too that your company actually remembers to pay you, ala Colgan a number of times that was posted here.



When your company replaced their Metro's with those, they handed some of them down to the cargo operation down at PHX they operated, where we at the time still flew one of that company's original PA-31-350s from back in the 1970s as a cargo bird.
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How do you always know all this stuff??
 
smack300 said:
How do you always know all this stuff??
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The Colgan failure to pay it's employees on time was documented in a number of threads here on the forum; and I used to work for the cargo company mentioned [UPS and Airborne Express contracted] and owned by Skywest prior to being commissioned in the USAF in the early-mid 1990s, where I flew N160SW out of KPHX, one of the original fleet of Skywest's PA-31-350s they started operating in 1973.....this particular one being a 1974 model. When Skywest retired their remaining Metro's in 1996 and replaced them with EMB-120s, a few of those began showing up at PHX to augment the PA-31s and C-208s.
 
z987k said:
Did they carry pax in the pa31s?
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Back in the 1970s, yes. The PA-31 was SKW's first cabin-class multi-engine plane of its fleet. Prior to that in the very early 1970s, they flew Cherokee 6, a Seneca or two, and a few others in their fleet.
 
I am a 121 pilot and after 5 years in the right seat and probably at least another year before upgrade, still love the job. I know it's not the cool thing to say on forums, but in reality, I and most Captains I fly with are very satisfied, and the future looks bright.

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