I've made up my mind about making up my mind...

[greaper007]

You aren't working here so you don't know the kinda BS our pilots deal with on a daily basis. Our management sucks, crew scheduling is heartless, dispatch is clueless, and maintanence is lazy. Last night we came close to a shutdown in flight because of an engine indication and what does dispatch tell us to do when we are less than 30 miles from our destination? GO BACK TO NY WE DONT HAVE MAINTANENCE THERE! Hmmm yeah ok a**whipe lets fly back 150miles with a questionable engine. So when we land at our safest suitable airport (per the checklist) and call up, we get a earfull from company. I'm not going to bow down to the company to do whats easier and cheaper for them, if you do the FAA will bite you in the tailcone.

Hey Sig, we've had the same thing happen. The key is if you get that kind of treatment you have to ask for the duty officer. We were flying around in an airplane where the ITT's were three degrees from overtemping on a 100% takeoff. My captain was getting the runaround from dispatch and from maintenance. So we just kept doing reduced power t/o's all day. It wasn't technically unsafe but it didn't give us a warm fuzzy feeling.

The next day my captain got a conference call from the CP and the capt he handed the plane over to. The CP said if anything like that ever happens again ask for the Duty Officer. That he would back my Capt up when making a PIC decision like that.

Talking to my Dad at SWA and other pilots I find that you have a few ass-hats in scheduling/dispatch/MX at every company that just want to pass the buck rather than do the right thing.

I hope your upgrade comes quickly at Republic. This is seriously going to be one of the widest open pilot markets in history in a few years. Of course it will also be the lowest paying pilot market...... Have you considered medical school?

 

[natemotatem]

Repeat after me 1000 TPIC, 1000 TPIC, 1000 TPIC....

This is a little late, but I think you'd be extremely hard pressed to get a major job with only 1000tpic especially now about the 65 rule. Get to some place where you want to be because you may be there awhile. That's just my experience growing up the son of a 767 capn for Delta.