Relax,
If a law firm seeks a solicitor, or an engineering firm seeks an engineer, etc., with specific qualifications, that's what they want, not somebody who doesn't meet their requirements who they must upgrade at their expense.
Yeh, but those blood-suckers you mention have most of their uni course (and for the special qual) paid for by you and I and then get to pay it back at their leisure via HECS. It wouldn't be so bad for us if we could do the same. But $100k up-front for flying training, then another 30k for endorsement, sucks.
And I wonder how many "special quals" cost $30k upfront?