Any pilots?

[SeaWhisper]

I solo in 1975, Private/Commercial/Instrument/Multi/ Approx 9100 hours. Love King Air's, and I have own Cessna 172/182/310, until I bought a Hatteras!

[av8torrich]

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Graduate. Showed up at Riddle with Instrument, went all the way through to ATP while there. After graduation I flew professionally for a couple of years, but the aviation market was terrible. Fortunately, I studied Engineering while at Riddle, so I use the degree to make a living now.

One bit of advice, have a back up plan to aviation. A lot of my class mates studied "Aerospace Science" while at ERAU. Most of those guys had a pretty tough time finding any kind of reasonable employment outside the aviation industry. A few became dispatchers, others worked as Air Traffic Controllers, ETC....

If I had to estimate, less than 15% of us who were in flight training at ERAU in the early to mid 90'sactually fly for a living. Hell my best friend in college sells insurance for a living now!

[GCSI]

ATP, 7000+ hrs, quit keeping close track quite a few years ago, own a long body MU-2 that I hanger in Atlanta

[rwappleton]

Love them Rice Rockets!!!! Have 1000 plus hours in them. Flown all models except the Solitare.

Do you have G,J,L Marquise?

[GCSI]

L, 1800 lb usefull load with full fuel, flt plan 265 low twenties or high teens. Second one I've owned, over the last 15 yrs only missed four flights due to weather, those were freezing rain.

[krush]

Am I going crazy, or where a bunch of posts removed from this thread?

[rsmith]

Seems so.

[rsmith]

Again anyone with airline connections PM would be appreciated. As of 1/1/15 after 12 years of service he is a civilian. Has apps in with all the majors. He just started with American Eagle flying commuters at 22k/year which is way below his skill set and qualifications.

My son, seven deployments in Afghanistan as a USAF combat ISR (intelegence survaliance reconasence) pilot

Soloed on his 16 birthday at a crop duster strip
PPL on his 17th
Inst. on his 18th

Airline Transport Pilot License
E-8C Aircraft Commander
MC-12W Aircraft Commander
BS in Business Management USAFA

PILOT CREDENTIALS Hours: 3,269 Total
1,812 PIC
2,849 Multi-engine Turbine
1,603 PIC Turbine
805 Instrument
1072 Night
2069 Combat

FAA: Unrestricted Airline Transport Pilot License
Class I Medical
FCC: Radiotelephone Operator Permit

EXPERIENCE E-8C Aircraft Commander
U.S. Air Force: Robins AFB | 2009-2012
Responsible for leading a crew of over 30 in providing near
real-time strategic intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance
(ISR) to the combatant commander. Additionally managed
squadron IT department and pilot scheduling.
MC-12W Aircraft Commander
U.S. Air Force: Beale AFB | 2013-Present
Leads a crew of four in providing real-time tactical ISR
and airstrike coordination to the ground forces commander.
Assistant director of Plans and Exercises, represents the MC-12
program across the Department of Defense, Homeland
Security, and other various agencies.

EDUCATION U.S. Air Force Academy
BS in Business Management | Colorado Springs, CO

SPECIALIZED Undergraduate Pilot Training, Laughlin AFB
TRAINING U.S. Air Force, 2009

AWA DS 12th Airborne Command and Control Squadron “Co-pilot of the
Year”
11th Operations Group “Co-pilot of the Year”
7th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Control Squadron
“Company Grade Officer of the Month”
379th Air Expeditionary Wing “Team of the Month”
Air Combat Command’s nominee for the Air Force Association’s
“Crew of the Year”

[Sadey]

I know this thread is old but curious how your son's (RSSMITH) career is going. No better time to become an airline pilot then right now!!

[rsmith]

Personally I think this pilot shortage is a myth created by the flight training companies like Flight Safety to sucker in students. My son found an anti military attitude in the airline industry because most there now came up flying RJ’s and commuters. The attitude is military pilots got put into big iron without years of grinding out hours for low pay flying lousy routes.
He’s a 76 captain for a cargo company flying mostly smiley boxes. He does do a lot of troop transport also to the Mideast Africa and Diego Garcia.