Guppy if there's no shortage then why can you
- walk into an Award (or better!) paying plank instructor's job pretty much anywhere in the country these days (offered lately to my humble self in a capital city, and I don't even have the rating yet),
- get a GA gig in regional centres by putting up your hand rather than sweeping hangars in the bush for weeks on end
- get into the Qantaslink cadetship with a bare CPL and 150 hrs TT/70 PIC?
- even become a Qantas direct entry S/O with 500 hrs PIC/MECIR and not much else??
