View Full Version : Funny old world.....
Flaxton Flyer
1st Mar 2015, 19:08
When I started flying commercially back in the early 90's, the most unlikely prospect for long-term pilot employment was probably a job with the Air Ambulance. Today, while the charter market seems pretty much on its ass, the offshore oil industry threatened by exploration cutbacks and the price of oil tanking, and the Police ASU's being decimated, the cash-rich AA's seems to be by far the best bet for a comfy, long- term chair. Who'd have seen that one coming?
Hawkeye0001
2nd Mar 2015, 09:51
That being well before my time of flying may I ask why Air Ambulance flying was not considered a valuable option for long term employment?
Sir George Cayley
2nd Mar 2015, 20:17
Ask William Wales?
SGC
bumbulum
2nd Mar 2015, 20:32
Hawkeyes, for the very good reason that they hardly existed back then.
jayteeto
2nd Mar 2015, 22:33
comfy chair? I am working harder now, than I ever did!
MightyGem
3rd Mar 2015, 19:06
That being well before my time of flying may I ask why Air Ambulance flying was not considered a valuable option for long term employment?
My thoughts at the time back in the late 80s/early 90s, rightly or wrongly, were that AAs were relatively new, funded purely by public donation and if the donations dried up, as did the job.