Originally Posted by
JW411
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.
That excuse carries no weight anymore in these JAA days. Considering the entire JAA is a potential job market, sitting whinging in a small poxy country is no excuse for not getting a job. These days you have to go beyond your native borders to get going in a career. I am Danish and have left its shores instead of sitting bitching about it like the rest of the muppets out of EKRK.