here's some advice for you pal
GO HOME
or maybe you could go to Iraq, I hear they need a few more Helicopter Pilots for the US ARMY.
Five Greens: go ask a QF Pilot about career progression. I wasn't trying to make it a anti-US reply, but it does seem to me and a lot of other CX guys that our friends from across the Pacific do complain a lot about our "standards"
And yes it should take a lot more than 18 months to develop a clear unbiased factual idea about life in CX. He aint go it, Simple.