How is this going to affect training providers?
As far as I know there aint many who have got level D sims. What are they going to do buy them? Not likely.
And what of the self sponsored wannabe?
The reduction in the number of training providers able to offer the course, coupled the fact that this will be an integrated only course, will probably lead to a sharp increase in price. I’m guessing £75,000?
And then what? You’re spat out into the job market with 80 hours in your log book! Bar the very small percentage that find their way straight in to a multi crew job, the majority will be up a certain well known creek without a paddle…
Getting the first 1000 hours is hard enough now but under this system it will be almost impossible. Instruct? Cant. Tow gliders? Nope. Air taxi? Got to be kidding!
Under the current system you can build more hours and become more employable as time goes on. With the proposed system you don’t have a way of improving your employability, you just send off your paltry CV in hope. The problem is the longer it takes you to get a job the less “current” you become, you’ve not had a chance to get any flying practice done as the only thing you are qualified to fly is a level D sim. So all the “fresh” wannabes who finished their course 6 months after you now jump the job queue ahead of you.
So you’ve got a tiny window in which to get a job in a *very* tough market or your airline career is going to be over before it started. And guess what? You’re going to be the bottom of the food chain behind the many qualified experienced pilots who are after that shiny jet job.
Thanks ICAO.
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HaM