Will Pilots ever unite in this country?
It seems impossible just by reading forums of pages and pages of bickering and name calling.
And in the meantime accountants can't believe their luck! Its perfect.
Very sad. But a the end of the day it starts with the bottom levels of GA - (buy 150 hours ICUS) and ends with salaries of professional people being halved.
. What other profession has had their money halved in the past 3 years?
The only way it will ever change is if all the name calling and tit for tat ends and people sit down and have a resonable rational conversation with one another.
At the moment if you knock back a flying job for what ever reason you will cause absolutley no problem to anyone apart from yourself. The reason being that there are 1000 people that will do it instead. The reason behind this is that their are too many students being pumped out. The numbers need to be capped. It needs to get a lot harder to get a CPL. Why do bus drivers get paid better than some airline pilots? Because there ain't that many people that want to do the job. How many people go "wow he's a bus driver unreal" not many - a few sure. Lots of people want to fly planes and this is where the problem starts.
If you don't control the student numbers (like in medicine) then you have not a hope in hell of controlling salaries unless of course you have an extreemly united front.
Best of luck guys. We are all watching over here in GA.
My 2 cents worth.
Mr. Hat