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You are really missing something . One year ago the agency nurse had 134 Euro per hour( I know they don't like paying taxes as all of us ) . The average agency nurse had may be 1000 h on NG and I had more that 4000 .. Was it fair . I don't think so .
For majority of pilots in RYR it took many years to come to there they are now . That includes years of instructing almost for free , flying different types of aircraft et c .