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I want to be a professional (non-airline) pilot when I grow up
- Thread starter Gatordev
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Pretty much.
How are you going to learn to read if you can't even fit in the building?Thanks... This is me right now-
So what have you heard - re: working conditions for pilots?
Non-pilot managers who treat their folks like shit. No respect for time-off/OT/etc. Ground job BS. Getting stuck on the SW Border with no chance of transfer. Forced into UAV operations without a ramp back to the cockpit. They can chest beat about "Mission before money" all they want, just like the Navy does, but people are leaving for the same reasons they left Active Duty.
There also seems to be a lack of interesting in addressing some simple things to make the pain equal. Things like adjusting schedules so someone can have a life for a period of time rather than keeping someone on graveyard indefinitely. Like SynixMan said, managers that don't always seem to see the forest for the trees.
My interest waned greatly after starting to work with a guy that quit and came to HAA (he couldn't get back into GOM at the time, but had done that previously). His stories, along with what I was researching on my own elsewhere just didn't quite excite me anymore.
GroundPounder
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There is a reason for people with " regular " jobs being unable to live in or near the cities where they work in California. You also find a lot of them that will take their retirements with them to other western states in order to be able to live more comfortably. From friends out there, the California people are then well known for trying to enact the same type polices that they are in effect fleeing from. Exactly the same scenario as Florida, the only state in which the farther south you go, the more north you get.
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Yeah, there were a couple of stories about "those guys" too, along with the spectrum in experience of prior Border Patrol agents that are now A&M pilots.
Gulf of Mexico (Oil & Gas support)
Ah, of course.
I gotta stop checking Urban Dictionary first for these questions.
