Originally Posted by
hargreaves99
There's plenty of pilots around with 1,000 hours and an IR. But employers want NVG, 500 hours PIC multi, HEMS experience, certain type ratings etc
I think this is very real......There are many pilots out there looking for a job or a better job. The problem is that operators nowadays don´t invest in pilots.....either with IR or with a type rating. And with that they prefer to increase or fake duty times to full fill contracts. And off course...if you have the money to by a Type rating...then you´re free to go and work for an operator and move to another that offers better conditions. There will be no bond or even no sense of "gratitude" to the employer. And pilots will move around being mercenaries looking for the best paying job.
Ps: Saying foreign pilots are a plague.......
....not good