HercFeend
I want to have some fun flying first!
Absolutely. After 20 years of poling airliners around, I agree that it is as boring as hell. Most airlines these days have monitoring systems that dob you in if you try anything even remotely resembling creative expression, and long haul is just systems monitoring. The only fun bit is the things you can buy with the money (and occasionally a decent hotel in a nice city, assuming of course that you aren't too fatigued to enjoy it).
However it is still better for many than all the bullsh*t that goes on in the military.
would an ATO let you take one of their shiny jets through a valley in a 90 degree bank at 200 feet....... mwah hah haaaaa
No, but then neither would the RNZAF! Seeing as they don't have any...
It would seem 'they' like ex military pilots and will hire them whenever not just in line with a 'big push'.....
Yes that would be the only good thing about joining the forces, the "Old Boys" network which facilitates such activities in some airlines... mostly those which feature lots of ex-squadron buddies in management roles.
Aerozepplin
Oh come on, you can't rip into the 757s for being too old then say that Auntie Helen killed our razor sharp strike force by mothballing the (pre) Vietnam era Skyhawks.
Fair point, but the 757s are around 17 years old... first delivered in 1993. Pretty old for a Boeing!