It is now all too common that the person sitting next to you on the flightdeck is there purely due to the depth of their pockets, or that of their parent's, instead of showing proper motivation and ability. Its little wonder flying has become so de-skilled when ability is less of a pre-requisite than willingness to pay!
Its about time people put a stop to this process of buying jobs before we see more incidents and the terms for all pilots further eroded. It was interesting to see BALPA finally address this issue in a recent edition of The Log and then have the nerve to carry an advert for a major supplier of self sponsored line training only a few pages on. I'm sure even PPRUNE would lose out if this process was stopped due to the adverts they host for 'pay to fly' schemes!
Last edited by HN1708; 19th Dec 2008 at 21:27.