I think some of you may be making a dodgy assumption that anyone participating in a "fly for free" scheme (usually never the case - money has to change hands somewhere) is a "bad pilot". In the current marketplace there are going to be dozens of "good" pilots looking for work. It doesn't justify the practice of companies booting out good operators on the basis of hiring cheap labour, but so far none of the objectors has come up with an example of this. . .. .By all means rail as much as you like at the injustices of a fickle industry, but don't just write people off as crap pilots for desperately selling themselves short just to get a foot in the door.