When 99.9% of people get into flying, it is with the express purpose of flying a jet and earning good money.
No-one is going to turn down the opportunity to fly something sexy.
I agree completely that it isn't a sensible idea, but again where were the senior people when this started to happen. If we won't fight for our livelihoods, then surely as professionals we'll fight for safety, but again, no. It became the norm for people with 200hrs to be sitting in the right hand seat of a jet.
Again this isn't the fault of the low hour pilot. They were given the opportunity and took it. The problem is that we allowed the opportunity to exist.
The attitude of "I'm a management pilot on the A grade with my gold plated pension, why should I bother to help the newbies...." is what has caused the problem, not that some 19 year old who's family has remortgaged their house for them has taken a job to earn as much money as they can as quickly as they can.
All that these "vultures" are doing is filling a niche. They didn't create it. The airlines created the need, their pilots allowed them to do it and the circle of blame was complete.
Last edited by Say again s l o w l y; 16th March 2010 at 22:23.