"This way lies the next Colgan Buffalo accident. I, in 40 years of aviation, have never seen anything this sleazy and corrupt. Think of this question asked by a passenger in today's mood toward pilots, "Son, how much are you getting paid to fly this turboprop?" And your answer, "Oh, I am paying them."
The current environment and pilot pay and benefits is telling you something and it is: "avoid this industry".
GF"
Hi Galaxy,
I understand what you're saying. But at this point of my career I'm lacking is some multi time to even meet the minimums of what the airlines are looking for. And what's wrong with paying for couple hundred hours to gain some real life flying experience. There's a lot of places all over the country that offer multi engine time building program with a safety pilot and a lot of my friends have gone there and are flying for different airlines. No one ever said a word to them. People are still doing it. I'm not the type of guy who has rich parents and use their money to buy the job. I've been instructing for last 2 years and I have MEI too. And guess what, even with the MEI there's no jobs. What am I supposed to do, just sit there and wait for things to happen or buy some experience? It's not like I'm buying a job from gulfstream.