Waspie and Jonny,
Any pilot who qualified more that 4 years or so ago doesn't know what integrated is, didn't qualify under it and is mistaking it for the old Cap509 route.
Totally and profoundly different. Modular and integrated are the same standard and same syllabus. One is more flexible than the other. Your research on prices might show some other significant differences as well
The background and era qualified is the most important question to have in your mind when you filter the opinions of pilots unless you know them to be 100% total aviation people who spend a large proportion of their free time at the grass roots. Even then a hard core vintage, warbird or aerobatic man has no reason to have any current training knowledge.
Todays shocking fact for wannabees
Less than 1 in a hundred pro pilots have anything at all to do with aviation outside of turning up at work. They don't read the magazines, go to airfields or shows - work is quite enough thanks. Note for yourselves that they barely contribute to the private forum or this forum - they'd rather have a life.
Danny and I have the exact figures on how many pro aviators subscribe to the mag that pitches itself to the airline industry. This exact number is obviously commercially confidential but let's just say we get the same in less than an hour. So, they won't even buy the pro industry mag and simply look at the job pages in the back while passing through the airport. They don't buy the GA mags or even flick through them and they do their best to forget the hurdles they had to jump just as soon as they possibly can.
Bear this in mind next time your chatting. Just how do they know if one is better than another in JAA land?? How do they know the differences? Where did they discover the information to derive their opinions?
A working airline pilot will be along shortly to shoot me down in flames if there is a porky in any of the above!!!!!
Regards to all,
Rob