Hey there all u p-pruners, I was just thinking about all the foreigners, coming and taking the bread out of our young South African pilot's mouths....Its time to protect our little cesspool of an industry for the younger generations of pilots coming thru the ranks at an alarming pace. We have so many licenced, unemployed young guys and girls out there, and yet you all advertise to, and invite the outsiders, for whom getting ratings and validations costs just about nothing compared to the hellish prices paid by locals, just to try make themselves employable. Ponder this...for one of us to go and get a licence that actually means something, not to mention the rights to work in their countries, is nigh impossible due to financial constraints etc, but for them its a cinch to come and operate our machines, keeping our pilots on the ground. It also alarms me, at how easily the operators hire foreign pilots, slap them with a validation and send them on contract in our machines....Protect our industry people, or else one day it might be you or your kids who sit and watch all the pretty little ZS a/c flying around, speaking in strange tongues on the radio.....
