How can we educate the Public on the Pilot Shortage!
Surely It's time that the general public be educated on how the Pilot shortage has occurred ??
If someone could organize ( AFAP are you listening?) a page long advertisement in the Friday Australian on how Companies have treated pilots for the last twenty years with terms and conditions.
With maybe a link to this site so they can read and learn about the contempt that GA and Airlines have towards it's employees, and how they have continually ignored it's workers for so long that the Pilot shortage has been born.
Include statistics on how much it cost and how long it takes to be qualified for an airline.
Include average wages for a GA pilot.
Include costs associated to keep current, Medicals, books, amendments...etc...
Include statistics on how many skilled Pilots have left Australia for overseas, also mentioning how respected they are. Include the countries in which they work in too and how much they can earn.
Include strories about how A certain Night frieght company blatantly admitted to the pilots, even thought they working more would not get a pay-rise because they "would leave anyway".
Australian Aviation needs to pay it's pilots more.... Lets not let these @#$%ing airlines get away with importing pilots to take our jobs....
They caused the shortage, why should they benefit from cheap overseas labour????
If we can have a fuel surcharge why can't we have a skilled labour surcharge to pay the pilots???