Remember your part of a very small group(5%)that 'enjoy' going to work...After35years of Airline flying your left with the feeling-the job is what you made of it. .Respect for the 'left' seat has erroded over the past decades,due to exposure of the job to the gen' public(lately comp'games)and the fact that more people are getting to their destinations regularly,so they regard it a normal,and everyday-your no big hero until their concerned..
Do we want it differently????Trade unionism have acquired the big bucks through productivety...The computor game/autopilot developement have resolved the'all' weather operations concerns to a few-thunderstorms and severe icing.
The other departments of the game are very quick to condemn any faults attributed to the pilot group,from the Fed's to the builders and your Co'....It's always been so,If they can 'blame' the guys, this excuses them from a more expensive'cure' for the occurence...Dispatch want Co- signing of the final plan(until T/o, then one rarely hears from them.).Crew sched 'draft' you with promises (until shift change).You accept a MEL dept,your Mtc best friend....Every wants to get in on the act(osha says F/a's can canx flight because of the cabin smell)...aaaand so it goes on,do we really care.....
Remember were only 5% of the population that enjoys going to work!!!!
