Eveytime this pay for your rating argument appears here you always get someone chipping in with 'so you think aviation owes you a living?'.. well fair enough it's a democratic world inside pprune.
Aviation may not owe you a living but have todays Fleet Managers, Chief Pilots, Ops Directors ever paid for a rating? One or two perhaps but on the whole I doubt it, protected final salary pensions, share options etc, all very nice.
So why does the new bloke/blokess who has shown dedication, made a substantial investment in their career to get licenced, perhaps done several years in the bush, be treated as yet another profit center and whose job it will be to fly the companies aircraft and the companies pax have to pay for the privilage??.. nothing more than short term greed sadly.
Aviation may not owe anyone a living (what profession does? actualy now I think about it anyone who puts their life at risk for others like firemen, soldiers deserve some free credit) but no pilot deserves to be blatantly abused in such a skilled profession as ours.
Blue Foot
Last edited by Blue-Footed Boobie; 29th May 2007 at 19:39.