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I totally agree with that.....
Everyone wants to get in the right seat of a 737 or 320 after 250 hrs a fesh CPL. What about paying their dues in the process....
There are 2 types who make it in Aviation as a pilot.
1) Born with a Diamond studded silver spoon DIFFERENT CATAGORY
2) Those not in the above catagory & Those who don't give up... those who keep the focus & also by paying their dues & flying whatever that flies, ask any senior airline pilot, was it easy for them & U will be surprised to hear their struggle stories........
In the USA, there is a lot of flying, propbably more airplanes just parked on a small municipal airport than there are total number of aircraft registered in India.
The pilots go through the same struggle, if it is not FAA(THE DGCA equivalent) then there is something else......
People banner tow, do flight instructing, fly all night alone in a small single engine or twin carrying cargo for petty wages, sometimes the Janitors working in their company make more than pilots, pilots would buy beg borrow steal, whatever it takes to get the real PIC experience of about 1500 to 2000 hrs with about 300 to 400 multi time & sometimes it may take about 3-4 yrs doing that & then someone gets hired by a regional flying a Metroliner or a CRJ.
And by the way, after all the struggle to reach a CRJ or metroliner at a Regional airline, the 1st year Regional airlines pilots make less than people working at McDonalds......
Then after 5-7 yrs at a regional airline, people think about getting hired in a major airline flying a 737 as a first officer......
It happens only in INDIA when a fresh 250 hrs or now a 200 hrs guy will go to a Airbus or 737 & then earn so much, so if the destination is that close, there has to be some hardship........