"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."
Oh poor you, could always have gone for another career, or maybe if none of you paid for all the above then employers would have to cover the costs of training.
However if that happened and anybody could get jobs as a pilot from scratch without having to spend around £80,000 to get there then it would become a real meritocracy, and not a job just for spoilt little boys with rich mummies and daddies who squeal that they're not paid enough money or respect.
Perhaps