It is a Nightmare.
Total Nightmare.
Wake up sweating Nightmare.
Doesn't matter if you are thinking of training, are training have finished training or like me have >10,000hrs of command jet time. Its a nightmare.
Wherever you are on the career ladder the bottom run keeps sinking lower and faster than you thought possible. The end result is that your rung also sinks.
I would like nothing more than to get back to the situation of ten years ago whereby an airline hired you, based on selection tests and interview, then paid for your MCC rating, Type Rating and Line Training whilst putting you in a hotel and paying you a starting salary (which was my experience).
Sadly Gordon Browns debt bubble based on 15% house price inflation means there is a seemingly endless supply of Wannabes willing to pay right up to and past the first passenger carrying flight.
The rot will bring down the tree.
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