I personally know of at least three PD pilots (SA citizens, born and bred)
OK, again I'll bite. I have 2 questions here:
1. Those PD's Jetnut, are they black or brown according to our country's wonderful colour coded history? This thread is about black pilots, although we all talk about PD's to save some sensitive egos.
2. Even if there are 10 black pilots training in SA with their own money, please explain to me why that is significant. The AA/EE brigade wants the airlines to be representative. That means that 75% of all pilots should be black. Not Coloured/Indian/Pink or Blue, but black! To get that right and with all the jobs just waiting for them, don't you think that there would at least be hundreds, if not thousands of the 30 million black people in this country queueing up for flying lessons.
And please don't use poverty as an excuse. I came from a very poor home. It took me 17 years from my first flight to the right seat of an airline.