Olof
You are both right and wrong.
Some airlines will take you on with a type raing in tow but you will find tha most will probably type you again using their SOP's.
And some will positively not take you on with a rating as they look on it as too much trouble to get you out of the TRTO's way of thinking which may clash with thiers.
It's all a bit of a lottery really.
The one thing that i have found that is the best way to get a job in this market regardless of your experience is a personal recommendation.
Your with a crew for the best part of a day and many CP's only want to know if you can get on with them.
I did an Intergrated course and before i did so i called the airlines and asked them what they prefered.
Some said "modular", some..." don't really care" but the majority said "intergrated".
The one thing about an intergrated course is that it is a known quantity. They train you to be an airline pilot from day one. You report when the rosta says so. The uniform gets you used to wearing one on line (some of our pilots hate wearing it).
The regular progress checks gets you prepared for OPC's,LPC's etc.
But most of all is that it is a hard one right for a school to conduct and regularly checked by the relavant authority.
There is a mantra of discipline instilled in you from day one which i took with me when i became an instructor and battered my students with until i thought they met the grade. And yes they did appreciate it.
When the market is desperate for crews they will take anybody. But when its like it is now (getting better but still slow) they will take what they know is a tried and trusted (albeit not infallable) method of producing airline pilots.
This argument has been raging for years and im sure for many to come.
But the facts speak for themselves but how you read them is when the fun starts.
Last edited by flaps to 60; 14th July 2004 at 15:02.