So let me get this straight...QANTAS is taking unexperienced trainees rather than pilots with GA experience, training them up to CPL standard, and then farming them out to other operators to get GA experience?????
Congratulation to the person who thought that one up. Does QANTAS get renumerated for these cadets or have they simply (mostly) paid for someone's licence/rating and then given them to someone else (albeit for a finite period - we think)? If that's the case, no wonder pilots have to go and pay for their own type rating, because other operators won't bother to do so if they can get free pilots from QANTAS.
I must be missing something here, please help....
LP