The driving force behind the push for four-year visas for pilots is two- fold,” Higgins said.
“Firstly, it takes about four years of experience in the right-hand seat before you can sit in the left-hand seat and gain a command and during that four-year period there is a training and mentoring relationship that is very important and we would like to see that relationship unbroken so that’s why we are requesting four-year visas.”
Trying to suggest a relationship between how long it takes an individual Australian pilot to upgrade and the length of time the foreign labour is needed is rediculous. Either Higgins has no idea what he is talking about or he is dishonest.