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burger61
Just went back to page 3 to read your comments there.
"cushy job"
Suggest you keep an eye on the BOM/radar website this summer. When you see the cells brewing, go ask your OPS Manager for the jumpseat to do the Sydney-Canberra 6 sectors.(or Brisbane - Emerald daily double in the afternoon.) (or Cairns -Weipa or Cairns - Horn daily double in the Wet Season or even try a cyclone ride with the fellows.) Then go and do it again in two days. Then do it again in acouple of days. Do it all summer long. Winter try 20-30Kt. crosswinds all day.
"cushy job" ......is yours. You have no idea what the job is like for an airline pilot. Even though you work for an airline and listen to the bullsh-t doesn't make you understand the job of flying an airliner.
Australia is an awesome place to fly and an even better place to live; the weather is not that bad here, try flying in europe or the states; seriously... anyone that says airline flying is not cushy is kidding themselves and further more just making excuses for their "cushy" lifestyle.
Try going to work with a bricklayer for a week and see how you pull up, no meal trays! No pay for roster changes. And dont come back with some BS response that the guy who is a bricklayer could have chosen to be a pilot. Some people just aren't cut out for certain things.
If you have ever slugged through GA then you have some idea of working long and hard; maybe you even did a bit of back breaking lifting from time to time; but if your complaining about airline flying then Im afraid you've forgotten where you came from.
This attitude displayed earlier (by some) about airlines not functioning without pilots. FFS you can go up the tree even more. Yes airlines need pilots, then engineers fix what we broke blah blah blah. Pilots need engineers to design aircraft, to build aircraft. Aircraft need materials that come out of mines, mines need miners who work for companies that need to be managed by accountants that need to be audited etc... In 40 years there will most likely still be airlines but will there still be pilots?
Just because we fly the aircraft doesn't mean that we're the be all and end all. When was the last time you washed the windshield of the 737/A320/Dash8/Ejet/Saab?