The other question is if your flying for free at the parachute moab - where do you stop and draw the line. Your next job your going to be inexperienced at charter - will you work for free there ? Your next job you might have no twin time - do you work for free there ?
Name ANY other industry where people work for free for companies that are making income off the activity you are performing for free for them ? Do people work for free at the local servo to get cash register experience to work at Coles?
If these same pilots that bitch about the crap conditions they eventually get at their airline - who do they have to blame ?
Pilots on one hand bitch and moan about crap conditions - however lets face it - if
VB or JQ offered guys 500 hours for 'free' on a 737/A320 after you paid $50K for an endorsement - they would be knocked over with applicants of people that would do it to make them 'more experienced' to get a job, then wonder why they can't get a job because all the other 737/A320 operators are full of 'freebie' F/Os!
The race to the bottom continues! I don't think anyone denies that people fly because they enjoy it - but they also deserve to make a decent wage or allow for all the money spent and crap one has to put up with to get a decent job.