How many of you out there have registered the fact that Addy comes from the Netherlands? How many of you out there have tried getting a flying job in the Netherlands? Not many, I would suspect.
It has been my pleasure to teach quite a few Dutch pilots so I feel a little bit qualified to comment.
It seems that if you don't get taken on by KLM as a youngster then the future is immediately pretty bleak. Holland is not a large country.
Most of the guys that I taught had paid quite a lot of money to fly for a US operator (B1900) and, while there, got paid less money than a street cleaner. However, they got 500 hours of interesting experience.
They were a joy to teach and all are now in the left seat. Sometimes in life you have to speculate to accumulate.