I’m fairly sure the recruiters at QF / JQ / Virgin et al will still respect that upbringing in the years to come - especially if you’ve learnt your stuff well alongside the way!
Flying Bear,
But you have introduced a pretty big "IF" there, and it is a serious problem, training to the absolute minimum academic (if you can even call it that) standard to pass CASA exams, and to stick and rudder standards that "old school" like me would have queried in a PPL flight test, in years gone by.
Then the much vaunted time "in the bush" to reinforce all too often deficient training --- consolidating bad habits.
Tootle pip!!