Anyone other than me notice this strange anomaly in the world of professional flying ??
Our whole professional pilot population appears ( at least from these pages and crew room chat generally ) to be split into 2 groups...
Group 1... Desperate wannabees... Applying huge effort...years of their time, tens of thousands of pounds, months of studying ....heartache, uncertainty... family pressures... And this is only the beginning ... having got the licence they continue on ... Dozens of letters... interviews...scouring the web sites and aviation mags for any sight of an opportunity to get into a cockpit...any cockpit...flying for food in the worlds worst cesspits...in some cases even at their own expence if necessary..
Then the transition takes place....a metamorphasis. The crawling caterpiller becomes a buterfly and moves to:-
Group 2.... Whinging, miserable malcontents.... The managements a farce....the roster stinks.. the bidding list fixed and unfair..the aircraft crap.. the contracts a joke. the salary blah ..blah.. Flight pay.... blah...
The transition would appear to measured in fractions of a nanosecond...