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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really understand how the author lumps pilots in with plumbers and electricians.  Airline pilots generally have degrees, and many are former military officers.  Doesn't make sense to me.  Anyone have a theory on that?[/quote]
I agree that it is unfair, but nowadays airline pilots are like glorified bus drivers, especially if you are working for a small podunk airline and getting paid pennies.
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True.  My father was an airline pilot, but back in the "heyday" of the industry--the 40s-80s.  They really were much more revered and looked up to years ago.  Our neighbors were always execs/lawyers/doctors, and he was the one with the good stories.  :) [/quote]
I think that skilled pilots are still revered (fighter pilots, helicopter pilots - Prince William, Sully, etc).  The pilots that basically let the planes fly themselves, not so much.[/quote]
Fighter and helicopter pilots a[u]re absolutely not viewed as similar to execs/lawyers/doctors.[/u] They might be respected, but I think they are very much L1/G3.

And *all* pilots, including Capt Sully, use autopilot. It's silly not to, and it does not diminish from the difficulty of what they are doing. If you think that the Captain of a 747 is not a highly-skilled pilot just because s/he uses autopilot, you clearly don't know what you are talking about.[/quote]

I assume you are addressing that to me.  My point was actually only that the pay was very similar back then, if not more.  (He worked for an airline that had the highest paid pilots in the world, and he was very senior).  The stories were because he was also a Flying Tiger, among other things.

He used to say pilots were well paid for the off chance that their skills were needed --the sheer moments of terror.  Like Capt Scully--not for the hundreds of hours of mundane work.[/quote]

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