![]() Questions and content about air travel (passenger experience, frequent flyer programs, etc.) are better suited to r/travel. Flight simulation belongs in r/flightsim. “Aviation enthusiast” content is better suited to r/aviation. r/flying is intended to be a place to discuss things like pilot training, regulations, procedures, techniques, aircraft ownership and maintenance, piloting as a career, and similar topics. Certain questions, such as "how do I become a pilot" and the like have been asked repeatedly in the past. ![]() We also welcome the new and uninitiated to explore and learn (but please follow the rules). We are a community for discussion among pilots, students, instructors and aviation professionals. Join the debate – email more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.Welcome to /r/flying. If the comments on our union forum are to be believed, you may even have gained a few new subscribers. And yet, we generally go about our business quietly, and for the most part, without fuss – just as many other professionals working in safety-critical workplaces.įor the most part, we, as a group, have been grateful to the Guardian for presenting some of the most balanced reporting on our dispute. While many aircraft accidents have an element of human failing in them, many more are prevented daily by the intervention of the pilots that so many are quick to criticise. But to downplay the safety-critical nature of a pilot’s role is mischievous at best. We do not get guaranteed free first-class travel for ourselves and families, though it would be nice and we get the same meal allowances as all other crew members – whether they were more generous than for cabin crew in the 1970s I have no idea, but if so they have long since been consigned to the history books.įor sure, our cabin crew colleagues play an important safety role onboard, and sometimes I am left in wonder at how they put up with much of what is demanded of them. As it is, as with many professionals at our level under PAYE, we pay over 60% on much of our income.īy the time you take into account national insurance payments, 40%-45% income tax, and the loss of one’s tax allowance (at the rate of £1 for every £2 earned above a certain threshold), we quite honestly pay more than our fair share of tax to Her Majesty’s coffers. I would dearly love to pay just 20% tax on my income. Name and address suppliedĪs a British Airways pilot I take exception to Allan McRobert’s letter. Current levels of safety are only achieved through the combined efforts of very talented engineers, the dedication, professionalism and sheer hard work of the pilots, and our teamwork with great cabin crew. The comments about safety are disappointing from someone who has worked in aviation. ![]() BA does pay additional sums towards this debt over the first seven years of a pilot’s career, but this does not cover the whole debt. ![]() These young men and women will have incurred training debts of £90,000-plus to get their professional qualifications. Senior pilots are well paid, but salary scales for those now joining the company start at just over £26,000.
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