Well, personally I think that the author of this article is a ****. I have never flown for RAF, RAAF, my accent does not even remotely resemble Canadnian (though I have ICAO level 6 English) and I come from what may be described as a lower wage market (not that I regret any of those - at least my country is famous for beautiful women and our pilots kicked the crap out of Germans during the Battle of Britain better then the RAF guys
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Is the above sufficient to consider me a sub-standard airline pilot?