*sigh*
You British wannabes are your own worst enemies sometimes.
I know that the normal half dozen usual xenophobic suspects are going to carry right on playing the man and not the ball for another couple of pages before this thread dies the usual anti-Johnny-Foreigner-thread death, but for the very small handful of you who are actually following this with an open mind :
Here's a question for you all
"As a British wannabe airline pilot, who do you think represents the greater threat to your long term future as a professional pilot in the United Kingdom?"
1) A small 5% handful of naturalized UK citizens, legal holders of UK passports and JAA ATPLs, whose heinous crime is that they wish to pilot a G-reg airliner despite having being born in another country / having a funny accent. Virtually to a man (woman) they are highly experienced professional members of the international airline pilot community. They have, invariably, made huge sacrifices and have worked extremely hard to get to the position they are in. They are not prepared to work for nothing or undercut others, are generally highly pro pilot-workforce, union fee paying, responsible citizens who will fight tooth and nail to protect or improve the working conditions for pilots in
whichever country they find themselves?
2) The never ending stream of low houred individuals coming out of flying schools all over this country right now, who are prepared to, on top of the somewhere-between-£40- and £70 thousand they've just spent on professional pilot licence training, will then spend £50 for the privilege of submitting their CV to Ryanair, just so they can THEN drop £150 on a sim ride, £20,000 on a type rating, and THEN sign up for a contract that still includes a 3 year bond, with a basic pay rate of £9900 per annum plus sector pay, half pay for the first 6 months, and they STILL agree to pay for their own medicals, hotac, uniforms, meals, coffee on board the aircraft etc etc etc?
Who will your sons and daughters blame in a generation's time, for screwing the piloting profession so comprehensively, that it is about as well respected and rewarded as that of a checkout assistant or a Mcdonald's employee?
And the correct answer is : not ME matey potatey!
Think about it
And another thing ... with regard to bagging antipodeans who bag the UK ...
http://www.emigratenz.org/bye-bye-blighty.html
Sure looks to me like you\'d ALL pack your bags and leave if you could.
The difference is, that rather than talk about moving abroad, some of us actually prefer to get off our asses and DO it, as opposed to sitting about on internet forums and complaining about it
