Me a Professional Pilot? You're really new around here aren't you? Read my profile.
Unfortunately our knowledge of pilots' true wealth is not shared by the public. People outside aviation believe pilots are granite-jawed super-heroes who take home 250 grand every year. We aviation professionals, of course, recognise the pot-bellied grey-haired old geezers staggering to their 1990 Toyota Corollas in the car park.
Don't we?
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Through difficulties to the cinema