KB 14, I guess this thread will die of a silent death, but I wanted to note that I got a shock when I read you. What had happened in the last year, since I left East Africa?! What cataclysm had fallen on the South African pilots?!! Is it payback time? Is it that what goes around comes around: listen Chief Pilot, we have been complaining about the same thing in East Africa, West Africa, the Indian Ocean, North Africa, over the last 10 years: complaining over the cheap South African pilots coming to take the bread out of our plates. They had good resumes and were cheap. Every operator would want one.
Well, it is the nature of our industry, it is the nature of aviation. From the day some dudes on a beach put an engine and a wing together and got it flying, this machine was gonna be travelling the world and its pilots too, looking for jobs wherever they could. Protectionism is not good in our industry sir.