I highly doubt that you will see people who have just spent 10 years at uni leaving to go to TAFE to be plumbers. Doctors actually have numerous career paths and the AMA ensures that they don't get white anted by being both a pusedo union and regulator.
The issue everywhere else is that nobody wants to be responsible for training. Tradesmen don't want apprentices, Companies like Sydney Harbour Seaplanes mentioned above won't risk junior pilots, you can get all the training you want but if you can't get entry level jobs and have something resembling a career path what's the point?
Aviation has always been a fine example of this, it's just now with the destruction of GA, and the isolation of experience as shown by the AFR article there will be a continual drain of pilots because ultimately people aren't going to waste their money and time.
Last edited by neville_nobody; 24th Apr 2017 at 01:24.