Horatio,
Have to agree with you after a few years of being around this bloody industry.
If the ICUS is properly given, then why wouldn't you do it? Everybody wins.
The good old days are long gone (though to be honest I can't remember them being particulary good at all!!).
There is no real union protection for GA pilots, there is certainly no real career progression most part of GA and to top it off, we don't live in Wonderland!!!
Do what you've gotta do to get ahead in this segment of the industry and do it quick. Ethics, morals, doing the "right thing" (ie: waiting your turn) by your compatriots in and around GA is pointless. Good guys get nowhere fast.
Take the hours when you can and how you can because.......GA is NOT worth it. It's just a place to spend a few years, have a few beers and enjoy yourself but eventually financial and family reality will force you to move on to much more enjoyable, well paid and better things.
Not a particulary nice tone to my post but.....grounded well within Realityland. Sad really!
