The sad part is only on the pilot’s side. It used to be that we either had the fun or we had the money, and there was always the glamour. Today there is neither money nor fun, and if there is a lot of money, there is no life, or a very hard one; as for the glamour…..
Young people with more brains than enthusiasm have started realizing that, and the boomerang is coming back in the face of the industry leaders: pilot shortage.
Personally, I have come to terms with the times: In a couple of years, I’ll go back to Africa and fly one of those real airplanes with no computers, no GPS, no flight director, no FADEC, just wings and engines, and the stuff to move them the right way
A well written, beautifully expressed post, Lemper. And how true...