Originally Posted by
Black belt
As l said Chum. You dont deserve to sit in any Airline cockpit with your ridiculous T.T. of 200 hours with your 3 Monkey bars on . Its just laughable !!!
Leave the land of Welfare , $160 Billion dollars p.a. and rising and the tax payer funded cadet courses and get your air-time in a filthy dirt hole, somewhere on the globe.
Oh, that's too hard to achieve, isn't it ?
Correct, these guys are WAY better off up in Asia or over in the states where some of them can expect a command position in as little as 3 years.
The facts are this, a major portion of current crew were hired straight out of the defence forces post war, they're all currently at an age where retirement is closing in quickly. GA in Australia is crippled. After the last GFC there isn't exact a surplus of qualified pilots logging up the hours out there.
Where on earth do you expect these 1500TT pilots to come from? The industry is experiencing rapid expansion, Qantas Group alone have 99 a320 series aircraft on order, who will fly them?
We get it, you put in the hard yards and worked for every one of those hours, but this is a different world than the one you began on. Use those leadership skills, and instead of whinging about the up and comers, give us some guidance, or even better yet, put some of those hard earned dollars on the line and pump them into the GA industry so we can get the start we need.