I would postulate (perhaps obvious) that one would better become a bus driver than an airline pilot in Oz if starting out as a spotty faced 18 year old.
This would be especially true if you happen to end up scraping the barrel at Jet* flying 100+ hours per month. I hear it’s now around 80-90K to get a frozen ATPL. Then there’s the years slaving in GA earning less than the dole. Finally get into a flash turboprop, maybe its even got EFIS and doesn’t look like a pencil d!ck. You might even earn more than 20K pa. a year or so goes on, then you get a dream run and get into Jet*. WOW there goes another 30K which you probably have to borrow. Now your earning nothing whilst you train. Gee checked to line , and earning about 5K more than the bus driver who is onto his second house and drives 38 hours a week and who’s pax don’t smell as bad as jet*.
What went wrong?
