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<blockquote data-quote="Airline Pilot" data-source="post: 98626"><p>Response to: Anonymous Coward. Tell you what: 1. Go to college and earn a degree. 2. Join the military and get through pilot training and the subsequent service obligation, or buy your pilot training -- very expensive! 3. Spend 5 to 10 years flying little airplanes (at tiny salary and great risk) in order to gain experience and log flight hours. 4. Compete against huge odds to finally land a job flying big airplanes. 5. Fly those aircraft as a First Officer for several years, earning about 60 percent of Captain pay. 6. Finally move up to Captain and accept the enormous responsibility that goes with it. THEN you'll know what a Captain does in order to earn a big salary. OR, you can try to follow this anology: A medical doctor invests about the same amount of time, energy and money achieving his position in life. If the MD makes a mistake, usually only one person is in jeopardy. If an Airline Captain makes a mistake, ALL occupants of the airplane are at risk and any people on the ground, near the mishap, are in jeopardy as well. The salary is commensurate to the responsibility and investment. Who has a greater responsibility? Does a MD have to do his job in thunderstorms? Are terrorists a general threat to MD's? Engine failures? Drunk and unruley passangers? Old equipment? I don't think so. Still think Airline Captains are over paid? Most MD's (especially surgeons) earn many times more money than Captains. Time and money invested in training and gaining experience; effort, risk, and sometimes overwhelming responsibilty. These are the reasons that Captains (AND Doctors) earn their high salary. And it's also the reason that not everyone can or wants to do it -- just like becoming a doctor. It's not easy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Airline Pilot, post: 98626"] Response to: Anonymous Coward. Tell you what: 1. Go to college and earn a degree. 2. Join the military and get through pilot training and the subsequent service obligation, or buy your pilot training -- very expensive! 3. Spend 5 to 10 years flying little airplanes (at tiny salary and great risk) in order to gain experience and log flight hours. 4. Compete against huge odds to finally land a job flying big airplanes. 5. Fly those aircraft as a First Officer for several years, earning about 60 percent of Captain pay. 6. Finally move up to Captain and accept the enormous responsibility that goes with it. THEN you'll know what a Captain does in order to earn a big salary. OR, you can try to follow this anology: A medical doctor invests about the same amount of time, energy and money achieving his position in life. If the MD makes a mistake, usually only one person is in jeopardy. If an Airline Captain makes a mistake, ALL occupants of the airplane are at risk and any people on the ground, near the mishap, are in jeopardy as well. The salary is commensurate to the responsibility and investment. Who has a greater responsibility? Does a MD have to do his job in thunderstorms? Are terrorists a general threat to MD's? Engine failures? Drunk and unruley passangers? Old equipment? I don't think so. Still think Airline Captains are over paid? Most MD's (especially surgeons) earn many times more money than Captains. Time and money invested in training and gaining experience; effort, risk, and sometimes overwhelming responsibilty. These are the reasons that Captains (AND Doctors) earn their high salary. And it's also the reason that not everyone can or wants to do it -- just like becoming a doctor. It's not easy! [/QUOTE]
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