Originally Posted by
runway16
M.E.V.
Could not agree more.
VET FEE Help still leaves a potential student with a massive debt even if they do not get in aviation, be it GA or an airline slot.
It should be that the airlines take a financial burden instead of just putting their new on-tick CPLs on a waiting list. That is not what they were told on entry. There were told that get their CPL and they would be into the airline. Not always the case.
As for cadets they should really be called captive students paying for their flight training via the Tax Payers dollar through the Government. We are producing more (inexperienced) pilots than the system needs or wants. It is wrong to give the spin 'Get your CPL with us and you have a seat on our XXX airliner'
Try and get a mortgage or buy a car on tick with a VET FEE loans hanging over your head.
R
Most Aussie airlines charge a Pilot for their endorsements through the use of a training wage or a wage bump after 3 or 4 years. Eg: Qantas pay around the equivalent of $60K a year for the first 6+ months. You’ve got no chance of them paying for an initial Pilots Licence.