Original Message

They'll never come right out and tell you to fly in below-miniums weather.  And they'd never put it in writing even if they did say it.  It's more insidious.  It's the old, "You know....I think you could've made that flight..."  It's the unspoken but tacit pressure to have "done better" to get the job done.  We've all felt it.  Everyone handles it differently.  If *you* find yourself canceling more flight than anyone else at the base, then something is amiss.  Either your personal interpretation of the weather is questionable, or everyone else's is.  Or, everyone else is a scud-running, minimums-busting a-hole...which is probably not the case.  Either way, you should probaably find another line of work.  Or at least a different base.

And to the guy who said, "I just tell them "You are paying me to follow the GOM. I am more than willing to violate that particular document but I'll cost a little more."  WRONG WRONG WRONG.  *Never* tell anyone that you'll voluntarily violate a rule, whether it's one in the GOM or a more-restrictive FAR.  That's crazy.  They don't pay you to violate rules; they pay you to follow them.  If I ever heard a pilot say that he'd violate the GOM for more money, I'd fire his azzz so quick his head would spin.