shotgun172
New member
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2002
- Posts
- 4
I just joined yesterday, and I was disgusted at what I found in the classified ads. There were three individuals offering their services as a pilot or instructor for free. We've all helped out a friend or co-worker in covering for them when they couldn't take a trip or fly with a student due to scheduling screw-ups or whatever. But to blatantly advertise your professional services for free is a disgrace to our profession. How can we expect to be paid and respected fairly when those among us undermine our efforts? Employment in this business has become bad enough, but choices like these will make it worse. Why should a business or individual hire a pilot or instructor when they can get some guy to do it for free? Every time some jerk does this he slits the throat of an honest professional pilot who's trying to make a living.