Ramp Jobs
We seem to be entering a sad time in aviation in Canada. Okay, it's been going on for a while now, and I just think it's wrong.
Young pilots are searching for "the best ramp jobs". Companies are taking advantage of the glut of low time "puppy mill" pilots, with the "carrot" of a seat in an airplane dangled before their brain washed eyes.
These pilots are perfectly willing to spend upwards of two years working on ramps for these "user" companies, with NO guarantee they will ever see a cockpit!
The operation I work for (small, but one of the best in the country) will deep six a resume from a pilot who even HINTS he/she would even entertain the idea of being a ramp worker.
Is this a Canadian only problem? Do American and overseas companies milk labour out of pilots too lacking in the balls department to say no to this crap?
WD