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Old 14th Jan 2017, 14:35
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Hedski
 
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Here's a crazy idea if they've too much money. Given HEMS pilots in UK are often single pilot IFR now how about paying the wages equivalent to the single pilot IFR sector, same goes for multi-crew. Then there wouldn't be such a struggle to survive so much for those actually doing a tough job. Specialist in Gloucester only pay IFR NVG captain's somewhere in the 50k's, Bond similar, Sloane just over 60k. And London maybe high 60k-70k at a push. It's utterly disgusting especially given the wages the charity senior staff often take home. So if there's so much floating about.... This is especially true for directly employed pilots who have had the senior consultants earning double or triple their wages whilst at times hitching free lifts in the aircraft but pilots not getting increases even in line with them percentage wise.
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