Originally Posted by
Chauderon
In terms of money, there are some good opportunities - I'm making around treble what I left a few years ago. A couple of things I found along the way; in terms of 'ephemeral leadership' in the Armed Forces, these are people with months of CLM training at Cranwell / Halton / Shrivenham. In the civilian world you will be working under managers with literally zero days of leadership training, and for some people it clearly shows. In terms of protection under the law and unions, European aviation is a mess and you're not really protected in many organisations despite who or what should be on your side.
Good luck.
Not that relevant. As a commercial pilot, at least as a captain, you are your own manager. That’s the whole point. You have no interaction with management on a day to day basis other than corporate fluff into your inbox from head office.
Don’t quite follow your view that the military has better leaders (I think that’s what you’re implying). The gene pool for service leaders is disgustingly small. Anyone properly good would be working for Accenture on multiples more than an air rank would be on. Heck, there are low cost captains in their 20s making similar to what an Air Vice-Marshal makes, to eat snacks in a straight line to Lanzarote and back. You end up with the backwash of the military establishment running the show.