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Original Message Weird some of you guys keep making this accusation. If I was hitting it hard and trying to sell you flight training, airline interview prep or was an airline recruiter telling "you will be a Captain in nine months" that would be one thing, but what do I personally gain by asking you to consider all aspects of an airline career beyond a pay scale you probably don't understand? What you call "downplaying" are the realities. I am accentuating the realities of life as an airline pilot as I experienced them and the people I know that are still in the industry continue to experience. So what have I been wrong about? I have backed up everything I said, and linked or referred everything I have been saying. The theme seems to be is I give you industry norms like commuting, and you think they are exaggerations. You guys come back in one instance telling me you make $180,000 flying a 500 if that suits your argument, then saying airline pilots make three times as much as helicopter pilots, but with no context, as if every fixed wing pilot is a senior 777 captain at American. How about the guy who said a 21 year old makes double what a helicopter pilot makes? Anyone call that guy on the carpet? Do you know of many 21 year old airline pilots? Getting your fixed wing ratings will take longer and cost more than you thought. I did not have to do this but by every account the ATP-CTP course will annoy if you not make you angry, especially if you already have an ATP-H. You will apply for many jobs and never hear anything back from the company and others will call you seemingly before you even hit send on your computer. You will probably underprepared for your first airline interview then over prepare for the next. Nobody cares if you flew helicopters except other helicopter pilots. Someone will tell you IFR in a helicopter must be easy since you can just fly over the airport and descend out of the clouds. Expect your IOE to be delayed. With all the hiring, training departments are backed up on doing IOE. Someone supposedly calculated that when you send in your resume to a major airline when they have a hiring window your chance of getting called for an interview are abou 1 in 4,000.
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