I have often wondered if we pilots had paid for our ratings, whether that great little airline would have survived. maybe that has coloured my thinking. I'd rather still have that job, on any terms than have had all the things that followed.
Capt Sherm,
Your arguement is flawed, you seem to have a guilt complex, What if the pilots and the rest of the staff had worked for for free during the startup period, perhaps the company would have survived.
No one wants to experience what you did, BUT to shoulder some of the blame as you seem to be doing for other peoples greed is silly. As I see it all that paying for type rating would have done would be prolong the period that the embezzlement could have carried on before being noticed, the end result being the same.