have some pilot questions?

I would recommend you to continue into the medical field -

Or... do you suffer of a mental condition, in asking about being a regional pilot...?

Regional airplanes are generally 20 to 75 passengers capacity -

Look at the data about ATR 72, CRJ and ERJ type airplanes -

In current numbers, new hire first officers rarely exceed $25,000/yr salaries -

A regional airline captain might be having a salary of $50,000 to 75,000/yr -

Being physician, after a few years in practice, buy yourself a Beech Bonanza -

Or even a Beech Baron - you will be a pilot, and captain of your own airplane -

My dentist has a SF-260, we traded dental work for Instrument Rating training -

Would you have the chance of flying for a major airline, I would hesitate too -

But the odds are against you, too many candidates, too few openings -

I got lucky to get in the "good years" coming from the USAF as KC-135 pilot -

But with the pilot job conditions presently, I would never think of being pilot -

And regional airline pilot...? - Not only no, but HELL NO...!

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Well Jules, I can understand that.

And with your competitive nature and former company, I can appreciate your predicament.

I was a Camera guy for one of the shots on THAT film after all. And I got to fly a bit too.

John is still flying last I knew.

My advice is get a pilot's license and a plane of you own. Do allot of flying and be multi-engined rated. DON'T EVER do ANYTHING that is bad for babies ~ like forget a checklist of fly an unsafe plane. And keep that plane so flyable so-as never to miss a single planned filed flight (file a flight-plan actually go somewhere you said you were going ~ don't go to Florida instead of Maine). BE UTTERLY CLEAN, pilots have a reputation for spiffy. THIS is a WAY OF LIFE, not an occupation.

And if you are in the co-pilot's seat, don't screw up. Literally get fired. Because you will get fired. But when you do don't let that get to you. Just do what you NEED to do. Object when it's unsafe to fly. Insist on EVERYTHING being correct; don't guess but KNOW the proper settings for that plane you fly and NEVER be lax on stuff like preheat for fuel lines in bad weather, or a FIRM recommendation to go some other way WITH statistics prepared to quote the pilot so-as to get him to recognize a BAD SITUATION. The pilot's job is to push through literally ANYTHING on his belief that he can cut that mustard cloud and heat those wings with shear willpower and melt that ice. YOUR JOB will be to KNOW there is a statistical probability that has gone tilt to the BAD SIDE OF MAYBE. YOU and NOT the PILOT will KNOW that people get away with near misses that mislead a pilot to get closer to THAT EDGE.

You are a good man.

Get better.

And get that job done.

Then try very hard to get fired for diverting a plane from the safer path. MAYBE.

But if your plane does run out of clean wing area, remember the lifting body. Most planes are cleaner to lifting body on their side.

And if you get pointed down, some planes recover quicker by going all the way through an inverted loop, oddly enough. But don't ever admit you know this on an application. It could be bad for business.

well, i think that if you are a doctor, it pays more, and there is a chance that if you start a family, you won't be able to see them that much if you become a pilot. there are large jets that fly regional flights, it just depends on the size of the number of passengers.

Why just Boeings? Why not Airbus?

Medicine, then you can fly whatever you want.