Dago get real,
The reason pilots make the big bucks is not the day to day hum drum flying, its when the emergency hits. Look at Sue City, look at the skill it to took to get the plane close to the airport A DC-10 with no flight controlls, they earn the big bucks. Pilots kill people at about 300 or more at a time doctors do it 1 at a time, get the point.
Try taking a rookie pilot who gets paid what some one a Mc Donalds gets and fly into Los Angeles in a Cat III weather conditions, flying DC-10, a 500,000 pound airplane with 305 people aboard, flying at 140 KTS and put it on the runway about the time that you see it, when the rookies would be wetting there pants driving there car in that stuff. But I do it all the time, and I get you there. Can you fix an airplane if you cant see it (dont think so). I can land without seeing the runway thats takes skill, not all airline pilots or airplanes are Cat III qualified.
Another thing Pilots have to worry if they can pass a first class physical every 6 months if they cant they lose there job, they have to not break any FARs or they lose there licenses, they have to get check rides every 6 months if they cant pass, they lose there job, they have to take route checks also, if they cant pass they lose there job. One incident can lose a pilot there job forever. When we have a bad day people die in a big way. Thats why we get it right all the time, that takes training years of training thats why we get paid like we do, ask your favorite football player why he gets paid so well even when he lose the game.
My dad retired USAF as a two star he flew F-105 over north vietnam with 100 missions and retired United Airlines as a Captain on the 747 making 320k a year flying 1000 hrs a year but those years are gone.
I make six figures not as much but I earn every bit of it. Even flying airplanes that are poorly repaired by high school educated and over paid A&P mechanics ( thats a digg ).
I dont have my nose up in the air when I walk, Im a very personable person, but when I here someone talking, that has no clue, you get the point.
So dago please talk about something you know about and dont get upset because your annual income is in the amount, of taxes, that gets taken from an airline pilot paycheck.
I have been flying since I was 14 got my private certificate at 16, and went on to get a degree in aeronautical engineering. I had a private, commercial, instrument, and certified flight instructor instrument and ATP, both in airplane & helicopter, before flying for the navy, flying F-14s. I have been with the airlines for 14 years flying L-1011s, DC-10s, Dc-9s, B-717s and presently a Captain on the B-767-300ER at the age of 45. Im also a FCC certified avionics tech, and a member of ALPA. So I think I know what Im talking about.
Later, Straiga
