picobello,
Its very nice and well to pay to advance your career but let me tell you one thing that the Jetsgo's of the world and the pilots that agree to pay for training do to the piloting career: yes you will build jet time......for what .....to get to a better job i.e one of the majors where you can have a good career with good pay and good amount of days off right?
Well every time one of these guys accepts to work for one of these carriers you errode this..You will get your experience on a jet but will have nowhere good to go work because the other airlines have to lower their standards to Jetsgo's.
So maybe yor budy is on an MD88 instead of an emb110 and will save a couple of years on his career.But by the same token what he is doing will insure that the next 30 years of his career,wherever he ends up going will be under crappy Jetsgo-like conditions i.e pay for your ppc, get paid less than a bus driver and work like a dog.
Some pilots are desperate for a job I know but having been in the industry for a long time I am telling you that long term you are hurting yourself and the proffession.Have some self respect and go get a job where you dont degrade yourself.......there are quite a few jobs out there on turboprops or corporate that pay more and you dont pay to get there.
Get your career the real way...........earn it.Believe me when you will get to your interview at a major the pilots on the board of hiring think like this and will look negatively on you paying for your training,accepting not getting paid until you are released on line than they will look positively on your jet time .
Stop prostituting yourself and our proffession.