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Originally Posted by John Herreshoff I want to reply with a really nasty reply about how the national failure rate for CFI cadidates is something like 90% and how I spent a lot longer than 30-60 hours training for something that I consider much more complex than a "leisure activity," and I've only got through my flight instructor ratings.
Those that haven't gotten that far seem to complain the most about how pilots only deserve what the market will provide them. I have NO idea what level of training you're at, or whether you're working as a professional pilot right now. I don't really care to be honest. This is more than a leisure activity for some people. |
Your feelings are very sincere. I started flying as a leisure activity with the idea that I could make a living at this, so I did. If someone doesn't enjoy flying at some point in their training, I wouldn't know why they would choose to do it. The point of the above example with the doctor getting his IFR as a leisure activity was to show that 30-60 hours flying for an IFR is NOT harder than getting into, then going through a medical education, which DE727UPS suggested was.
I don't mean to demean the hard work that anyone has put into their careers because it is hard. I only want to debunk the argument that
"doctors and pilots put equal amounts of work into their education so they deserve equal salaries" . Education =/= salary. Doctor education=/= pilot education. I agree that pilots deserve more money, but that's not how the world works. Many people deserve lots of things that they never get.
To stay on message, I am saying is that the education required of a doctor is much more than the education of a pilot, I am not saying anything else. To compare the education and knowledge base of the average pilot to average doctor is not even close. A better comparision would be to say that a pro pilot needs to have a master's in aero.engineering, meteorology, and a bS in physics in addition to all their flight training to have a comparable amount of education to a doctor.
My point and my ONLY point is that
"don't use the argument that pilots deserve equal pay to doctors because they have equal amounts of education" because this argument is wrong. Check out the studentdoctor.net forum and you will see how much goes into a medical degree, then compare it to how many years it takes to train as a pilot, and see if "doctors and pilots have equally rigorous educations". You don't know what you don't know. I know enough doctors to have an opinion. Take a look through the doctor forum and you will learn something about what doctors go through.