Personally i'd prefer to get the job on merit. I'd prefer my family to be sitting behind the guy who got the job on merit, not the guy with the richest parents. Call it personal preference.
A completely fallacious argument. Jobs
are offered on the basis of merit... it is just that applicants are selected from a smaller pool (ie ones who can pay for type ratings). You still have to pass the course and the check at the end of it.
What do you think this doctor is going to say upon completion when you tell him he now needs to pay 40 grand simply for the privilege of being allowed to work.
Another fallacious argument. You don't have to pay 40 grand to work as commercial pilot. But you may have to if you want to fly a jet - you need a further qualification to do that. That is your choice. Doctors are no different - if they want to specialise, they have to do the additional 7 years of study plus any extra courses required. Yes, they can work (later in their studies), but they work very long hours for very little money and still have to pay for those extra years at med school.
Why don't I just walk into Qantas tomorrow and throw 200 grand at them and say here, take that, now give me a job.
Because you would first have to prove your ability and qualifications. As you don't work for Qantas (I assume) you are obviously not attractive to them, no matter how much money you might have. They aren't stupid.
For me personally its entirely an issue of principle.
Good for you. Enjoy your career in GA.
All you will end up with is a continually decreasing quality in your airline applicant as the best and brightest choose more rewarding fields.
The best and the brightest haven't chosen aviation since the '50s. They do the things that are far better career choices. You only have to look at the spellling and grammatical ability on this forum to assess the academic ability of most pilots. The academic requirements for an ATPL are closer to college level than first-year University.
And yet, curiously, there are less accidents and less fatalities every year. Hmmm. Another fallacious argument.
The people who choose a career in flying do so because they love flying (or because they want to impress girls with their shiny uniform).
Doctors sure as hell don’t hand over 30 grand to become specialists.
No, they just hand over seven extra years of their lives, plus the med school costs, work twenty hour days with no FTL protection, and get paid very little. Most are still paying off their study bill ten years later. Pilots have it soooo hard...
