Originally Posted by Wiskey Driver

Absolutely correct!

Texaspilot, your finances are just as you stated your business. Now if I may, I wish to try and explain this in such a way that its as simple as possible. As professional pilots all we have to sell is our time and skill. We are not labor that is easily replaced and by that I mean that it takes some time to train a pilot from hire to end of IOE. We are SKILLED labor and as such need to be compensated in a manner consistent with that skill. Now if we just give away that only thing in which we have to sell we would be a whole lot worse for wear!

I completely understand your position of having a family to feed and everyone here has that same issue but you can not feed that family if you give away your items that are for sale now can you? Now all I am saying to you is remember who you are and just what you had to do in order to be where you are today, it was not cheap, easy or free. The person that taught you how to fly did not do that for free either be it Military or civilian...

WD at AWA