Originally Posted by
hargreaves99
Onshore operators often dish out free type ratings to the chief pilot's mates, but everyone else gets the "opportunity" to buy one at full retail cost (+ VAT of course)
Where do you get such bitter rhetoric? The nature of business demands that pilots are to some greater or lesser degree, responsible for the type ratings they takes form Operators. The Bond in place does not appear to be enforceable. Ala the Bristow's saga in the early 2000s where the ECHR ruled that training taken to undertake revenue earning activity for a Company is at the costs to the Company.
However, I feel the truth lies somewhere between. If someone takes a TR and is Bonded, Sure they can walk and refuse to pay........but would anyone else want to employ such a person OR risk spending their money on a Type Rating for them? In the end its reputation in a small industry.
If a person is unwilling or reluctant to Bond for a TR......what message does that give the Employer!
DB