What are all the other 'unemployed' pilots doing?
As I sit here on a damp Saturday morning, I was wondering where everyone went to when the UK charter market shrank so quickly a couple of years ago?
I spent 5 very happy years until 2009 flying VFR machines (single and twin) to all the major sporting events throughout the UK, and keeping busy with lots of varied charter work too, and then it all stopped, very suddenly. So where did everybody go to?
I share my time between working as an 'contract' development engineer in the motor industry (which I hate much more than all the hassles and frustrations of trying to earn a decent wage as helicopter pilot!), and boring the pants off all the HR departments and Chief Pilots of the slightly more compact industry with highly ambitious application letters and CV's (and probably making them laugh too?)
So come on, spare 30 seconds and satisfy my ponderings by sharing your present 'workabouts'.
KH