Huge thread drift..I see Warren jumped at your shadow on cue, Mr Smith.
Has it also occured to you that training those thousands and thousands of international students...cheaper than the US... is putting downward pressure on pay and conditions for local jobs.
The answer isn't a training industry...you are creating a sausage factory...the answer is a robust, high profile, highly valued GA industry. The industry desperately needs more consumers. More people using a pilot licence to hire aircraft, buy aircraft, buy consumables, do commerce, see things and visit places. Aviation is way below critical mass in Australia and that is the danger...sausage factories are not the answer.
And none of our political parties have understood aviation for decades. They see aviation as a cash cow that must pay its way...and who helped them in no small way back a few decades get that little earner set up?
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