Interesting how things change. In today's Australian newspaper, a journalist writes that qualified flying instructors are being recruited by the airlines because they see them as pilots who can adapt easily and quickly to the airline environment. On the other hand it was only last year before the current airline recruiting boom, that regionals, charter operators and airlines wouldn't have a bar of instructors because they hadn't done the perceived hard yards living and flying in the bush.
When Virgin Blue started up it was almost a prequisite to arrive at the interview with red dust on your Doc Martens and a host of aborigine named airstrips in the log book. Instructors rarely got a look in.
