Why you should pay for your endorsement!
This is probably a topic that will attract abuse and anger from some of you out there but it's always healthy to balance out one's perspective. This is not just an attempt to wind people up so if you choose to respond to the contaray, make it clear and convincing.
Is it not actually sensible and fair to expect that pilots do pay for their own endorsements these days? From a company perspective, it saves any operator a fortune in training costs and as there seems to be no shortage of pilots who happily agree to pay for their endorsements, why would a company not take advantage of this and invest the significant funds it saves in training costs into other capital and company expansion.
Let's face it, a big part of the reason that pilots are today expected to pay for their endorsements stems from the fact that pilots are just too fast to get trained and leave a few weeks later when their next big job offer comes along. That leaves the company out of pocket and still needing pilots. From a business perspective, that sucks.
As mentioned above, the fact that pilots do now accept that they will pay for endorsements onto turbines proves that the concept does have merit and is here to stay.
Thoughts, comments?