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Old 23rd Nov 2006, 05:21
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Lefthanded_Rock_Thrower
 
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One point that needs to be highlighted here, many aviation companies in the Low RPT / charter world generally do not employ instructors, because in the past have had many bad experiences.

This is not to say that there are not good people amongst the instructors, but the small number of terrible pilots with instructor backgrounds that have gone before you have caused irrepairable damage in the mind of the employer.

For many pilots in the charter world, packing all of your personal possesions into the sigma and heading to YPKU/YBAS/YPDN or similiar is a required pilgrimage and an automatic brotherhood of sorts.

It takes a fair amount of courage to step out of ones comfort zone and " go bush " and is a great experience that no amount of aeroclub flying can emulate.
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