wint3rmute
Good thoughtful stuff but if you're new here just some background:
I don't know why but born and bred airline pilots have proved incapable of running a successful website. Danny, me, Scroggs all had long careers before going anywhere near Airliners. Amongst other things Danny was an Israeli soldier, while I did 13 years at the pointy end of life in Toxteth. Scroggs has 20 years of military flying under his belt. We don't spout as aviation dilletantes bored or trapped with our chosen path. We fought, kicked and clawed our way onto the flightdeck at ages where we shouldn't have had a chance.
We did it approaching or actually in our forties with families and mortgages. We suceeded, we prospered and this site is our way of putting something back.
There's nothing in it for us to tell wannabees the realities of the job. We get nothing out of it. It costs us money of our own to run the site. Other than us every single person a wannabee has contact with is either trying to sell them something or justify their own expensive decisions.
You are most unusual in knowing any working airline pilots - the majority of wannabees have no contact at all with anyone in the business. We're here to be brutally honest friends - the only ones who will tell, what is to some, the unpleasant truth. It needs to be told because it is not in the financial interest of any club, training organisation or even trade union to tell the truth.
Those who live, breath and sleep aviation will find their way to the flight deck. We are just making sure that our readers know that there are much more pleasant ways of flying and earning a good living.
Tens of thousands of pounds are spent selling the dream to wannabees. We are the only, I repeat only counterbalance. You, of all people, must share our loathing of spin and marketing and the 'work' of non active, never been on the front line, drones and careerists who utterly depend on fresh, eager new faces coming through the system.
Regards from the Towers
Rob Lloyd