decline in flying training
Australia is flooded with newly qualified commercial pilots, and this is the real explanation for the drop in flying training activity. If you book into a hotel in a bush town, the porter who carries your bags is likely to be a commercial pilot who is trying to get a flying job, and cannot. The country is full of angry young commercial pilots who thought they were going to be in a boeing in a year or two. Alice Springs has about thirty of them. General aviation in the outback is a very important, difficult and honourable profession which deserves long term committment, not arrogant, angry pilots who do not wish to be there.
The flying schools have a lot to answer for.
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