KyleRB, you tell me who the idiot is?
The kid with 250 hrs who will be sat in the right hand seat of a budget airline for 10 years then left hand for 30 years........ end of career.....
or
someone who instructs after doing a cpl/ir, maybe a bit of single pilot stuff, and bit of turboprop flying? By the time he/she has been around aviation for a few years they make a rational decision about their career. Guess what, by then they can actually fly an aeroplane with some SA too. If they then decide to join an airline, they still have time to squeeze in the obligatory 2 divorces, cabin crew partner, 1 bedroom flat - lifestyle.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I became a pilot to fly aeroplanes; not for money. If it were only about money, your argument would be sound.
Anyway......... back to the thread. The UK is currently nowhere near short of pilots. When 250hr kids and 1000hr instructors can walk straight into a job that pays more than working in Mcdonalds we may be.
Last edited by CoiledString; 9th Nov 2010 at 16:54.