tommacklin, you make some excellent points and do so with great tact. Your first line is a classic!
Flying Lawyer, your posts are getting more to the point each time. I disagree with a few of your points but by and large I think you're right on.
Everyone would like to make more money and most of us think we deserve it. I'm just a PPL because I've convinced myself that I enjoy flying enought that if I did it for a living I wouldn't enjoy it anymore. Well, that and the fact that it takes A LOT of work and a LOT of personal sacrifice. And a LOT of money. So professional pilots deserve a handsome wage and most of the ones I know do fairly well. Obviously the newer ones barely get by, but that's part of putting in your time and paying your dues, something required in almost every profession.
In jest I'll say that it's a lot like giving a salary to the warden of a women's prison. "You mean I get paid too?!!!"
