Originally Posted by
melmothtw
I take your point, but that's the same in every walk of life - the newer generation earning much less than their seniors, and having to listen to how much better things used to be back in the day (am sure 1950s RAF pilots were fed up to the back teeth of hearing from 'The Few'). Not sure we'd all run off to China, Russia etc at the first opportunity though. Or maybe we would, who knows?
It's many walks of life it's "have qualification will travel" these days. Certainly on the civil side of aviation plenty of licence holders have "run off" to China in search of better money.
Wouldn't float my boat but it works for some.