What we don't hear here though are the voices of those that spent the £60,000 but never did get a jet job. Its all well and good us clucking about how nice the sunrise bathed Alps look as we barrel home in a Scruggs WonderJet MkII with a harem of attractive young things brewing us tea and medals down the back.
But what about the poor sprat stuck as an instructor with a massive loan to repay or who is out of currency on his IR out of ideas and out of luck? He or she probably no longer bothers these boards as the sight of so many keen young things with their pockets on fire fills them with a mild sense of despair, dread and sickness.
As it happens this week sees the last remaining chum from the golden summer of '99 (PPL instructing) secure a jet job. It may have taken 5 years but eventually everybody who did take the ATPL plunge in 1998 did make it to a jet. Which is heartening. So I have no reason particularly to be down on the prospects of the average Wannabe.
Nonetheless I do get a bit worried from time to time that the forum can resemble a castle in the sky built on the hopes and dreams of people who have not much idea how the industry is or the life a Pilot has to lead. It very much isn't Cath Me If You Can anymore is it??
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