Originally Posted by
hargreaves99
Middle East captains/TRE/TRI etc £200k a year
The reasons the salary is so high, is because there is a price to pay. Yeah, salary commensurate with Experience is one thing, but working in the middle east, the salaries had better be large. Take into account who you work for, lack of human rights in the general workforce, lack of flight standards and mis-understanding of flight duty times etc, etc, etc. Dont be mis-led...that's the flavour of Flying in the middle east these days.
Couple that with high cost of living while you are there, modern day slavery still exists, and always living on the edge of worried about doing the smallest wrong thing accidentally and ending up in jail. Being a "pale-face" or "non-local" is equal to "always going to be the one at fault"...then the compensation sure as hell should be worth all of it. Flying helicopters in the middle east is a good job, right until it isn't...about 2 years in.
But, then again, if you're chasing the buck in this racket, your doing it all for the wrong reasons.