What I want to know is in what job in the expat pilot market there isn't a 10-20% average washout rate?
Where is training NOT riddled with politics and cultural implications?
We do have some angry characters here that bitch and moan to anyone that would care to listen but they don't do anything about it, attrition levels are pretty much negligible although there are a lot of options out there right now, the opposite is the case we have had several guys going somewhere else just to come back here after a few years...., Why? Most jobs you have to pay for a training bond or pay for your own rating, you will get a reduced salary during training and the so called "commuting options" are 6 weeks on and 2 weeks off..! Most jobs out there work their pilots like dogs..., guys are flying 900+ hours per year and in most jobs you are lucky if you get more than 8 consecutive days off a month, most of the commuting options will have guys doing two or even three sectors where there is a direct flight available because every time the company will get the cheapest ticket they can find, they don't care if you take 20 hours to get home in a commute that is normally 8 hours. Guys being pulled into the chief pilot's office because they did a "Go Around" or because they requested more fuel, people smoking in the flight deck and countless other ridiculous nonsense that we don't deal with here at all.
Newsflash boys and girls..., there are no greener pastures, there are only different shades of brown!