Yes and how many other professions require you to fork out 70K to gain your licence to operate and then fork out another 23K for your type rateing and all in order to earn a starting wage of @ 27K ? Thats if your lucky enough to get a job. Oh might as well add uni debt on top of that too.
Thank goodness for the military. Then again you get shot at these days.
Take all that into account and add the responsibility we carry then I reckon we are substantially underpaid.