Great post FloridaCFI. If we are going to bring our profesion back to where it once was (salary wise), that would be the starting point....

Unfortunately, I doubt we'll get anywhere. Guys will continue to pay for a job and/or fly for free. They gotta get that turbine time, its "my ticket to the majors, forget my fellow pilots"... Companies feed off that, that's why they make people buy type ratings, fill in the right seat for no compensation, and the regionals pay their F/Os practically nothing, why would they? there literally thousands of Flight Instructors willing to do it for less.

I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel.