I once to lived with a Para-dropping pilot. Flying a C182, she used to earn around $33k (plus holidays, sick days - you know all the stuff
real employees get). Good upgrade prospects (all the way to twin turbine), all training paid for. The boss looked after the pilots and expected them to hang around, seemed a lot of them did.
Was a great gig. The 182 was a bit of a heap, but it had an MR and all squarks were fixed asap. I happily flew the odd day for them with no worries about the old girl.
They offered me a job on a 185 just after i moved out of town, DOH!!! I was all career minded then and turned it down. With hindsight i should have taken it
