Al manages to let us know he has a mate doing a course but sadly absolutely zero information regarding service , actual costs versus promised cost. Location of training, the authority it comes under, it's transferal to a UK or other licence and its course quality seems strangely absent. Critically and, for a working professional, the most important question of all - one which the new and naive would never dream of asking.
No I didn't, I met a bloke flying in the US a couple of weeks ago who was on the scheme. British bloke, JAA ATPL'd up and he was paying something like $20 per hour in a B1900. Thats all I know, he had researched it and seemed to think it would benefit his career.
I don't know anything about the service, it is obviously something I'd research very carefully before entering into a deal. My point was that if one can afford to do this then be careful, research it and do it if it will benefit your career. My other point is that if your airline career has stagnated, get off your arse and do something about it rather than bitch at people who have had an idea how to improve their career. You cannot realistically expect to exit a fATPL course with 250hrs, and land a RHS job, and you certainly shouldn't expect to just becasue you went to a well known school.....just like a university graduate expecting to paid 90,000 a year just because they come out with a degree. In the real world this doesn't happen.
Anyway, off for my cigar and Bacardi 151 now, I passed my CPL ME IR check ride so can now consider myself a proffessional Pilot
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