This article from the Wall Street Journal is a
must read...
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It should be the answer to all USA wannabees who ask "how to become a pilot".
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Also the answer to pilots from the rest of the world who ask "How to be a pilot in USA" and get a visa.
How about a visa to work at a "7-Eleven"...??? Wages are better...
Leave the USA to the 12 million "undocumented" aliens, let them fly planes and speak Spanish in US airspace...
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I left the USA for Argentina in 1993... so far, 14 years of happiness...
Nice people here, red carpet treatment, great food (fast food unknown)...
Nor for the money, but being treated as a human being by a decent airline.
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Happy contrails