Originally Posted by Centaurus
Certainly interesting comparisons. Although I wonder why "Training Captains" (International or local) are paid a higher salary than ordinary line pilots. In the RAAF each squadron had a QFI/IRE which means Qualified Flying Instructor and Instrument Rating Examiner. There was no extra money involved because we were paid by rank (Flight Lieutenant, Squadron Leader etc) and to be selected as a QFI at an operational squadron was considered to be quite a privilege. The extra responsibilities were willingly taken on the shoulders. Not so, evidently, in civil aviation where even having an instrument rating is worth an increment in The Award system if it still exists.
Maybe that's why the RAAF has retention problems.
The trouble with 'prestige' is it attract the wrong people as trainers- officious, incapable types. I have seen airlines lose millions of dollars with poor trainers when type introduction is cocked up or expansion windows missed.
Money talks. You know who are the capable guys who belong in training- pay for it and go and get them!