Yep mate ,read it all before. I remember doing an instructors
rating in 1979 and the instructor said dont become an airline
pilot as you will whinge within a year.How right he was as far
as a lot of my colleagues are concerned,but l look back at how tough it was in the early days whenever l have a whinge these days. The problem was breaking out of GA into the airlines and
it definitely is a case of being in the right place at the time.
I thought l was going to be stuck prawn spotting in the gulf ad
infinitum and then it happened and l eventually ended up
in long haul.
Whilst we are on the subject man antipodeans enquire about
Jars etc and licence conversion, make no mistake it costs a
fortune and the dear old totally unaccountable CAA
(campaign against aviation) will put obstacles in ones path all the way.
How do pilots build the hours up these days, the old method
of doing the licences at moorrabbin and going north (usually PNG)
are over as no dougt prawn spotting