Originally Posted by
Lab Rat
Do you really know why you do not make more than $35K/yr.? This is why:
1: Aviation universities who charge you a small mortgage while enticing you all through college with dreams of flying international widebodies - and people who willfully go into debt pursuing the "dream".
I think "the truth" has been coming to light in more significant ways in the past few years given 1. ever increasing internet resources/capabilities 2. the fallout and publicity from the Buffalo crash. And possibly a number 3. the boom of young regional pilots from the 2005-2007 era have been able tell their young friends what's *really* going on.
When I was in high school, getting my private at the local airport, all I had was the my (GA-only) instructor's two cents and what I could scrounge at the local library. Let me tell ya, that was *nothing* like the information a person can find in 10 minutes on the internet these days.