Aviator3
Message to all cadets. Don’t be so happy. Use your head. Nowadays we are facing a very difficult times. Nobody knows the future, but I think we can say it is better to expect the worse scenario => some flying in June-September, zero hours in October-May. After line training you will be on polish self-employment contract, which means you are being paid for planned flight hours. “Planned”, this means not the real hours. During line training you will have priority, this means amount of hours for other pilots will be reduced and given to you. During line training you can expect something around 35 euros for planned flight hour. Deduct health insurance, social insurance and taxes – you are self-employed and you are responsible for correct taxation in the country where you are based. If you do not understand taxation rules in that country, you have to hire tax adviser, who will do it for you (you have to pay for it of course). After line training, expect around 50 euros for planned flight hour. Expect around 200 hours in one year (because you will fly roughly 4 months or do you really think, that the whole population will be vaccinated? I don’t think so.) Then ask a question. Can a pilot with 200 hours and payrate 50 euro gross per hour afford to live with this amount of money on his own? Are you able to repay your type rating cost? (maybe also ATPL training?) Can you afford reasonable housing in your base? Or prepare you parents, they will have to financially support you for couple of years until aviation in Europe recovers. Some of you will be lucky during line training, because some of you will be on temporary employee contract. But in the end, after line training you will be forced to accept polish self-employment contract. Either that or nothing (you can leave the company), you paid the instructors, you paid the sims, company is happy that the simulator centre is working and generating profit. Company doesn’t care about you. Right now you are just a cheap labor work, who will be called during summer and then expect unpaid leave for more than 6 months. Have a plan, have a second job. One day the Europe will recover from covid and things will slowly become better. But that’s not today. And definitely it is not going to happen next year. And one last thing don’t be Ryanair marketing stars on social networks.
