Like I have said from the start, any one who has an MPL and is not sponsored by an airline will need to build hours in order to become attractive for when an airline decides to recruit.
On whose authority do you make this assumption? The MPL will be attractive enough.
Lolo. In the event that a 250 hr
fATPL cadet is not offered immediate employment after training (something that is very very normal even during the boom times), the fATPL pilot has two choices:
He/She can pray and wait for a phone call (remember after a year your IR is expired) or you can try and find a General Aviation job to build hours, keep current so when a recruitment drive occurs in an airline, you are a very attractive candidate.
The latter route into the airlines is something that happens in every single country for non-sponsored pilots. That is my authority. It is how the majority of pilots I fly with everyday got to the airlines - the other method is via the military or if they were on a specific airline sponsorship scheme. This is also based on my being an airline pilot of 10 years compared to you being a cadet for 1 or 2 years ok?
My point is that with a basic MPL license, you can not apply to any general aviation jobs without doing further training to satisfy certain requirements. That was all I was pertaining to in my post.
Having read your post, it seems CIA have now dropped the self-sponsored MPL. This is good. And it also demonstrates that the self-sponsored MPL that Clark marketed was too ahead of its time and has ultimately failed. To all the posters that questioned the MPL via the countless pages on this thread, it appears that you were indeed correct - but this does not make me feel proud.
ICAO has and will acknowledge the self-sponsored cadets that have and are training at Clark. This is not ground breaking or positive news as this was always the case with this course. It was an approved course.
However what does ICAO recognised actually mean in terms of getting a job? If Cebu Pacific don't take you (why should they considering they have sponsored pilots at Clark?) what will you do except to pay for my training so you can fly Gen Aviation to build hours? Sitting around waiting for a phonecall from Cebu is a very very risky plan.
I hope that any pilot, self-sponsored or otherwise (MPL or fATPL) has a back-up plan upon graduation in the very likely event that there is not a job waiting for them.