Beleive it or not but have just been told from a reliable source that Skippers aviation in Perth has just taken on a young good looking blonde lady that use to work in the ground ops for skippers and put her on the Dash 8 as an FO as part of her QF cadet scheme.The young lady has all of a bare comercial and instrument rating!!Seems Airnorth couldnt make a position for her, so Skippers helped out.
My concern is that not only have QF started recruiting more cadets than direct entry SO's, but now the companys that once employed us experienced GA pilots appear be turning towards the gravy train of the QF cadet program.So where too now for us pilots with too many hours for the QF cadet scheme, and no turbine hours for other regionals like easterns??
hmmmmm interesting times ahead for the industry
