PPRuNe has two essential strengths.
The first is that it puts you in contact with other Wannabes. Just knowing that you are not alone and not the only one with the same hopes and fears and questions is wonderful.
The second is that it puts you in contact with industry insiders. The amount and specific value of the information and advice they can provide is immense and inavailable elsewhere unless your Dad is Willie Walsh.
An area where we have never had much 'coverage' is from the finance side of the business. As every pilot knows - the thing that makes aeroplanes fly is money. As such I am extremely grateful for Grass Strip Basher bringing his City view of the industry and therefore Wannabeism. I have an amateur interest in economics-finance and a professional interest in flying. I find it extremely useful to find someone for whom the opposite is true.
Personally I don't 'blame' the players who created the mess as much as the regulators and governments that failed to stop them.
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