Boy oh boy, here we go again!
I know the aviation world is a bit insular and many people on the Wannabe Forums on PPRUNE are young and therefore have not experienced other industries, but this is not the only industry in which the number of young people training each year is greater than the number of jobs available!
It's standard within most desireable professions in case you didn't know!
IMHO it's a good thing in aviation because the training isn't hard enough to weed out the less able pilots and I don't know about you lot, but there are plenty of pilots I've seen in my FTO who I wouldn't feel safe flying with even with a set of controls in front of me, let alone having them sitting at the sharp end of a passenger jet where they could cause real harm!
