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Old 9th September 2007 | 16:51
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CaptKremin
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Good decision.

The daily difficulties faced in this job have grown to outlandish proportions. What was a fun career 30 years ago is now a severe test of personal endurance.

Battling through overcrowded airport terminals to get to work, hassles from ignorant security staff, petty stupid rules about personal luggage, over crowded ramps, runways and skies, falling salaries, contractual terms under constant attack, higher and higher demands on productivity, with aircraft that go on forever creating greater disruption and fatigue, constant checking and re-checking, Manuals that have quadrupled in size (which you are expected to be word perfect with), greater frequency of severe weather through climate change, increasing fuel costs, increasing pressure from bean counters to always take minimum fuel, pressure from ATC to do the impossible with your aircraft, and of course - terrorist threats.

Glad I'm near done.
 
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