Airline Pilots: Very Easy Question.
 

Hey guys:

Just a very simple question, nothing complicated just how do you like your job? Let's hear the good bad or ugly truth from your first hand experience-no rumors. (This topic was locked earlier due to some confusion). Just tell us about your own job, no one elses (and not the one you aspire to get either). Here are the points of interest:

Are you on reserve? If so tell us about that.

How are you treated by management?

Except for the obvious ones, what mistakes can you get away with, (be honest now)?

Are you Left or Rt seat?

How many years did it take to get where you are (in the cockpit) now?

Tell us about your hours.

Tell us about your pay?

Is the job fun, or are you worked to the limit?

What kind of plane do you fly?

Who do you fly for?

What are the good and bad things about it not covered already?

Do you think a job in engineering, or other professional job would have been better?

Let's here the pilots talk. There are a lot of people waiting to hear it.



Thanks,

Chris

Are you on reserve? If so tell us about that.
no
How are you treated by management?
like a productivity tool
Except for the obvious ones, what mistakes can you get away with, (be honest now)?
putting on your underwear inside-out; the rest is all on paper and registered
Are you Left or Rt seat?
RH
How many years did it take to get where you are (in the cockpit) now?
2 1/2 years of school, 4 months nothing and lots of cash, including buying a TR
Tell us about your hours.
700 p/yr.
Tell us about your pay?
not bad, if I wouldn't have that bloody loan on my back
Is the job fun, or are you worked to the limit?
as soon as you're of the chocks its nice
What kind of plane do you fly?
737
Who do you fly for?
xxx
What are the good and bad things about it not covered already?
Being a pilot is not anymore just driving a plane; now you are dispatcher, "red cap", flight engineer, mechanic (for throughflight inspections) etc etc in one. You're expected to notice anything, and if you don't..
Do you think a job in engineering, or other professional job would have been better?
better in what respect? job security, or if you expect to stay living in your hometown for the rest of your life, or when you want to work 0900-1700. We are underpaid for the moments when its tough, overpaid when scheduling doesn't have flights for us. It's all too relative, but it certainly depends on who you work for..

I think the best way to start is for you to tell us about
yourself and experience.

Tarik:

Nobody says a thing about themselves in other posts, they just fire away. Why should we change now?