"Ditch" wrote in message
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Argh. This always gets me. It's one thing to pay for training. It's
another thing entirely to work for free. To do that is to completely
devalue your skills.

That, and it puts a working pilot out of a job. She should be shot.

Shot? Isn't that a little extreme?

I fail to see the difference between what she's doing, and what every other
inexperienced commercial pilot does, except in degree. Fact is, EVERY pilot
trying to get into the big cushy airline job puts up with all sorts of
"devaluing" situations, whether that's a low income, ****ty hours, no choice
about relocation, or cleaning the dog poop off of some corporate customer's
shoes.

I've never heard of any person getting into commercial aviation for any
reason other than that they love to fly. People like that, they are
inclined to do crazy things just to get into a cockpit, including flying for
nothing except the hours.

So, what's the difference if one person decides that they are willing to go
all the way down to zero pay to win the job? You can argue till the cows
come home that no one ought to do that, but look around you: even those
pilots who are getting paid aren't getting paid what they ought to be paid,
given how much training and hassles they've been through to get where they
are.

Any time someone agrees to fly an airplane for less than another pilot is
willing to, they "put a working pilot out of a job". But at the same time,
one working pilot gets the job. Pilots get paid low wages because most of
them *would* fly for no pay, push come to shove. Just happens one person
actually wound up doing that.

Pete