Regional Airline Pilots... at the moment we are in bad need. depedning on what oil does that could all change.
Major airlines on the other hand are pretty stagnant.
every month i fly with a differnet captain, sometimes the captain just happens to be a "check airman".
when a new airline pilot is hired and completes a few months of training at headquarters in the simulators and training aircraft he has to go out on real trips with passengers on board for X amount of hours riding with a check airman. when he gets those hours he is signed off and goes to work like the rest of us.
the company can kick me out of my seat to let one of these new guys fly with my captain if he is a check airman.
by the contract they can re-assign me, but whatever trip they reassign me to has to pretty much match my original schedule in number of hours on duty.
if they cant find a trip to give me, they have to release me to the house... with pay.
this is the fourth week in a row this has happened to me, and last year i managed to get nearly 4 full months off because of it.
