Snigs, you wrote ‘
I expect the 11 low houred pilots are fairly young’.
Well I suppose it depends on what you mean by
fairly young but I think it would be true to say that, predominantly, the people attending the Bond / GAS courses seem to be in their thirties or older.
Aside – don’t loose heart on the age thing, e.g. I certainly know of at least one other bloke
who was nudging forty when he got is first break – thanks to Hamrah & CH4 – going straight from light aircraft and onto a B737 with GoFly.
Luke, you wrote '
condolences to those who paid their £850 and came up empty handed'.
But those people are not empty handed.
For the vast majority this was there first experience of attending a full-on airline assessment – which in itself alone would prove useful experience.
As a result of the assessment and subsequent debriefings, the assessee’s
now have a much clearer understanding of where their present abilities put them - certainly in terms of them being able to transition directly to a jet and / or whether this would be a sensible idea for them to consider, or not.
Imho, just because - and for whatever reason - some who attend the assessment are not presently undertaking a jet-type rating does not mean that it has been a waste of their £850 – far from it.