Under EASA, every flight school and training center has to have an operating certificate and they are known as ATOs.

Big money I hope

Or better than virgin America/ Alaska

No, but still good money. I also get to live in a country and city where I want to live and have an outstanding quality of life. I am quite content. I could not live where I am now and work in the States. It would take a hell of a lot more money than any airline is offering to get me to think about moving back to the U.S.

And yet, there are a bunch of europilots on the Norwegian thread crying about low wages in euroland. I suppose settling for less of everything is one of the joys of eurosocialism. And eurosocialism is only a couple of shades different than classic communism.

Communism, as well as Capitalism, has never existed on Our Earth. Communist ideology states that there will be NO GOVERNMENT. Do you know any "Communist" countries that don't have a government? Capitalism requires a "Free Market", unencumbered by anything. To have a Free Market, once again, you need NO GOVERNMENT. Do you know any location on Our Earth that has no government?

Socialism is an idea that can actually work. The latest survey of resident happiness: ALL of the Scandinavian countries are the happiest on Our Earth. The US has dropped a LOT in the happiness ranking of its residents...

Also, there is a reasonable chance that the above overseas pilot does not live in Europe.

I live in Scandinavia.

Do you know what socialism is? How is so-called "eurosocialism" related?

Great. We've now moved to making this an academic discussion on types of government which have no basis in the real world. Please Cliff, stay in the real world. With real world examples. I don't care about theoretical academic crap that has no basis in the real world.

Are you citing the UN's World Happiness Report???? As far as happiness indices, I like how Finland is ranked #1 in happiness, yet has a higher suicide rate than the lowly US. Please explain that dichotomy.

Depending on which metrics one chooses for 'happiness', the results can be radically different. Garbage in, garbage out. Look at the weighting of immigrants' happiness and dystopia. That was a typical crap 'study' that means next to nothing. Another waste of money.

Just because the UN publishes a garbage report doesn't mean that socialism works. I don't like the idea of residents being able to fritter away their lives in nonproductive pursuits, subsidized by those that work while others work their butts off and are poorly compensated. Yes, a nirvana for the indolent. Socialism is a living hell for highly productive residents. That works until it doesn't, just as communism worked in the Soviet Union until the highly productive residents started to engage in slothful behavior.

No, I'm a freaking moron who never took a single postsecondary class on government, politics, or political theory. What do you think?

Scandanavia is composed of more than one country. You live in Sweden, right? Awesome social safety net. Unsustainable as it approaches a tipping point. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-welfare-state

This is all a variation of Aesop's 'The Ant and the Grasshopper' except that Scandanavia is being overrun by grasshoppers.

I think you need to ask for your money back if you are under the impression that the Scandinavian countries are Socialist.

Do you seriously want to compare the economic sustainability of the Scandinavian model with U.S. model?