Mildura Rednecks wreck our fair go reputation

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Originally Posted by dr dre

Well, we are. Their GDP is 20 times higher and rising. Their population is 50 times higher. We need them more than they need us. There’s other deposits of minerals in the world. There’s other sources of food, other countries with universities and free space to operate flying schools.

It may upset some here to read this, but Australia is gum on the bottom of China’s shoe and they could easily pull us off and discard us. How many instructors will lose their jobs because China finds a new location to train their pilots? A lot of keyboard heroes here but none willing to admit the consequences of their desires on our nation.

Indeed, dr dre.

China could easily discard Australia. It may choose to do so. Do you have a ‘Plan B’ for that contingency?

All those instructors are digging career graves, if not for themselves for those aspiring to be instructors in the future. China will find a new location to train their pilots. It’s a place called “China”.

As I said before, all those Australian-trained Chinese pilots are taking the know-how back home. It’s like the Australian farmers who are exporting herd cattle to China. One day China will say thanks for the know how (and the cattle), we now have the critical mass to do this ourselves, and goodbye.

There are short-term gains from sucking up to China. A lot of keyboard heroes are not willing to admit the long-term consequences of doing so.

Some of us desire a thriving flying training industry that’s training Australians to meet the demands of what should be a thriving general aviation sector in Australia. Unfortunately for the long-term interests of Australia (and flying instructors), the place is run on the basis of the the laziest way to the quickest bucks (and cheapest flat-screen TVs).