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Old 29th Apr 2004, 08:31
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Whippersnapper
 
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The CTC scheme is definately a good start to a career, if you are able to get on it. The selection process is very thorough, and to an outsider like me, they often seem to turm away people who appear to be good candidates. There is also the difficulty in raising the bond money.

Against this, you have an immediate jet job and a good training foundation. It also does no harm on a CV as it shows a level of ability to pass their selection, and a proven quality for completing their training.

There is another organisation called Global Solutions, which offers what I understand to be a similar scheme.

There are always those who knock these schemes, and those who have been on them. Naturally, these individuals have not been on such a scheme themselves, and so their views are one sided, and sometimes tainted with a little bitterness at the fact that some are able to get a career shortcut, while it took several or many years for them to achieve a jet position.

In the end, just do what serves your job prospects best: if CTC can take you straight out of ATPL trg and sit you in the rhs of a 73 or 320, without you having to spend upto 2 years unemployed, a couple more as an instructor or air taxi, and yet another 2 or 3 on turbo-props, so much the better.
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