Good on Captain Epton for at last speaking out about the plight of today's airline pilots. It's just a damning shame that the governing bodies around the world, along with the unions, have sat on their fat backsides & done nothing to stop the deterioration of this extremely responsible job. So long as cost is a factor that will always drive standards to the lowest that the airlines can, 'get away with,' it is up to the authorities & unions to stop the rot & they have systematically failed to do so for well over a decade now.
It's far from being just P2F either, how about fatigue inducing patterns; less days off with our families; the blame culture; outrageous airport security; money worries that detract the pilot from the task in hand; uncaring, uncompromising & inexperienced crewing departments? All of these things go largely unnoticed & unchecked by the powers that be.
