We are talking about costs that are particular to any company that conducts flying for profit, say a Part 135 operation using twin Cessnas to deliver boxes in southern Oklahoma, not the more general costs associated with educating and certifying a pilot for such work. Since when should any small business not expect to have to pay the costs of running their particular type of business? The oversupply of pilots has led to all sorts of dubious arrangements for pilot training in the past and this another one of them.