You have time to sit around and post on this forum instead of being out working.....You should be paid by the flight hour and only raises based on management and clinical input. Glorified taxi cab drivers with autopilot and all those fancy thingys you got......wouldnt hack it in back in the day.

we keep getting raises and bonuses, too!

Your hilarious 

it's you're bro. lol

Nice catch!

You're

Your

Thier, There...

Got it thanks!

... I'm still complainign I don't get paid enough!

Our pay rates should simply be advertised/bargained/stated in wage-per-duty-hour!

These contracts are so discombobulated calling it a "salary", and then trying to pare it down to a per/hr wage.   Make it what it really is - a wage per duty hour!

in a union, YOU haven't negotiated anything, you're merely the baby bird in the nest taking wha the union chooses to give you, minus their cut of course. 

As a SPIFR pilot we have to hand fly approaches in both AEO and OEI configurations. That's just to pass a .297 checkride. If I can do that, I can easily "hack it, in your day." Perhap, you can't hack it today. As an IP, I've flown with plenty of pilots with more "flt time" than me but can't pass a checkride. Perhaps, that'd be you. 🤷‍♂️

awesome, you certainly seem to think you are. 

But "back in the day" everything was hand flown and you'd just be another pud-knocker.

Enjoy your "IP" job and good luck, just remember to not believe your own BS.

DISMISSED!

Never said I was "awesome". Just stated that I have confidence in my abilities to "hack it" as it was stated in the early part of this thread. It does seem that I touched a nerve with you though. Perhaps I owe you and your feelings an apology so, here it goes... 

SPIFR is the easiest and safest flying in the HAA industry. You are the best of the worst. Bravo!

wonder if you could pass one of my checkrides? perhaps not?

is two words but I'm sure you're a check airman lol

Oh hells ya...best post ever! Finally, somebody who sees the roses and not the stems!

doesn't believe in a free market economy

Lower wages are a result of businesses being as loyal as their options. Higher wages are a result of you being as loyal as your options.

Hi kids,

You folks who think you know the business side of of this industry should understand that

to management, you are nothing more than over paid fork lift drivers in

some warehouse. It's always been so, and you folks who think your skills are superior to

to your peers... You are just the best fork lift driver in that warehouse.

Been there,

Another Old Guy

I concur.

Offered my services to upper management to x-train over from 24 year with the co. avionics /30 year total exp in aviation to fly for them, since they are having so much trouble finding loyal and competent pilots. 

Got no reply.

They used to value the pilot/mechanic idea.  Not anymore.  I guess I make too much currently in my present position for them to even consider the idea.  That and it's harder to replace highly skilled line avionics tech than a run of the mill fork lift pilot.

And yes, I fly (pilot) regularly...In case you were wondering.

That was tried in the 80s and they kept crashing and flying in dumb conditions... for billable flight hours.  

EMS folks are paid to be ready, and paid well to have the conviction to say NO when necessary.  

EMS folks are paid to be ready, and paid well to have the conviction to say NO when necessary.  

To which I add that a GOOD HEMS pilot has a realistic, usable backup plan in place at all times. The plan may be as simple as deciding to abort the flight to the easiest rendezevous with ground transport or someplace where the crew can readily be returned to base and the helo recovered when weather permits.

Weather is what you see out the window and that is constantly changing. What you see is what you got, not the latest observations (history) or the forecasts (scientific wild arse guesses).

That is where the experience that seniority brings and extensive local area knowledge pays for itself.

A word for all us old goobers- just because you did it before doesn't mean you're gonna be successful again. When it's as bad as you've seen it before, don't push on because you've seen it get better in a short distance. I suspect that's the reason experienced HEMS guys have such surprising accident rates.... I followed another pilot who insisted 100 and a half-mile was flyable when our mins were 300 and 2. He made it and I aborted. That's Russian Roulette, the hammer may snap on an empty cylinder or it may go bang when you fly into something without adequate response time and limited options if you did respond.

make a bet?

might consider going back to grammar school.