Type Rating - which type, where, why pay etc?

[High Wing Drifter]

Re: Type ratings - yes or no?

It is difficult to disagree with the notion that if you have the money that you should use it to your advantage. How you use it is another matter. On the face of it buying a type rating should give you a leg up. Isn't a speculative (as that is what it amounts to) type rating without multi-crew hours a potential waste of time and money?

If you do a type rating isn't there a risk that you are more unemployable, wouldn't an airline prefer you to do a type rating at their preferred establishment(s)? As a parcially zero houred bod, wouldn't you still remain an totally unknown qualtity?

As a practically zero houred fATPL, what if you do a type rating and it then takes six-nine months to find a job, pass the interview, pass the sim check and get out of the hold pool? Your type rating requires a renewal before 3 months is up. LASORS is a little ambiguous on the situation if you don't do 10 route sectors or 1 route sector with an examiner and the proficiency check within the first 3 months. Do the type rating courses provide a 1 route sector and proficiency check service if you don't yet have an employer to other take care of these matters?

I suppose you have shown you can pass, but it doesn't seem like rocket science so that aspect is potentially nugetory.