He also said only 1/3 of those getting fATPLs get a job per year.
Has anyone else heard about this?
I guess you didnt read my post then?
It doesnt take a Degree in Hard Sums to figure out how many pilots are required in an average year, and it is not likely to exceed 4-500, even in the so called boom years. Of that number a certain percentage of those jobs will be filled with people coming into the UK from Oz NZ RSA etc. who have the right to live and work in the UK.
The current best guesstimate of fully tooled up CPL/IR (fATPL) + MCC annual production is approx 700.
Some will give it up (easy to do when life is taking a dump in your teapot).
Some will go abroad, for example to Africa for Bush flying.
Some will die.
This still leaves a surplus of a couple of hundred people - at least.
The difference between modular and integrated is unlikley to make any difference. You have the same JAA licence which carries the same priveleges.