Shame it’s so expensive. My lessons are $260 an hour.

I have crisis fatigue. I have been so frustrated and angry for the last decade. If everything is in crisis then what’s the fucking point, I’m just going to live my life and take care of my family.

Somehow rather, people are still fucking flying. The whole month where news covered that helicopter that crashed into the plane full of people and people are still fucking flying. Like WTF? What are you people not getting?

The advice I read when starting flight training was to keep a backup career choice open in case a medical issue prevents you from flying. Well, by the time I’d reached the point of choosing whether to do flight instructor training I was making enough in tech that taking a pay cut for years as a flight instructor, then years more of a pay cut at a regional airline, made it an easier choice to have flying remain only a fun hobby.

How about “less flying”? If they actually had to pay taxes on aviation fuel, there would be no pilot crisis.