Clowns Shmowns.
They do it because they can.
Because there is a willing supply of suckers ready to part with their money. Or are they suckers? That 7 or 8 grand invested to give em a couple hundred turbine could be the ticket to bigger and better things...?
There are many more out there like that, O'connors I believe "congratulate" you on being selected for their ground school, yet only the "top" suckers there get the privilege of being selected to pay for endorsements.
Funny bloody ****!
Doesn’t Sharp offer much the same? Yet with their cadetship you get that all valuable chieftain co-pilot time, way to go for 70 grand!
That’s the way of the world, easy to look at it now and laugh, but a drowning man will climb over another to stay afloat, no matter the price.