Originally Posted by
kcboy
This is terrible advice I’m sorry. Base your flying career of potentially the next 40 years on a couple thousand dollars pay discrepancy during type rating? Let’s say you wanted to stay and live in a certain base that realistically Jetstar will get you direct entry into like Brisbane, do you go to the RFDS because they pay you for ground school but then you get to live in Charleville for the next 20 years? Your kids will love you for that one mate! All for some additional money during ground school (by the way when you go to Singapore for the transition sims with Jetstar you will clear around 15K for that month if it’s coupled to the overnights from ground school in Melbourne).
I see the point that you are making Flyboy mate, but it’s rock in a hard place stuff. All of the on offer Australian jet jobs (apart from
mainline which is categorically a better contract) have their own sets of pros and cons, and it’s up to the pilot to balance which set of pros and cons would work for you best - whilst at the same time you might not want to put all of your eggs in one basket incase the wait is too long and if the industry stagnates you haven’t progressed (eg a subsidiary internal putting in for mainline and given a 3 year wait).
Thanks mate. That’s it, basing is the primary reason. Not exactly going to move the family interstate for the sake of a few months training pay…