well thanks Wizofoz!
Actually.. could your please give me more info on the TRSS scheme???
(P.M.?)
is there "REALLY" no money to be paid up-front? Don't you need to give the bank some kind of "security"? what if you have no chash/house ?
The thing I was trying to stress was that everyone thinks it's easyer in another coutry! If you talk to aussies and kiwis they want move to europe cos they hope to get a jet-job.
If you talk to guys from europe, they'd love to go to Oz to build up a few hrs flying (bush/chutes/...just about anything in GA!!) ...before returning to europe with more hrs and so more chances to get their first jet-job!
When I started my licences they'd just implemented the Bloody JAR's... so it meant if I got my licence in Oz as I was planning on doing I had to do the JAA ATPL's all over again (like now if you're low hrs)...and the 50hrs for the IR course... (since then reduced now to 15hrs ...as the add goes ..."hmmm..BUGGER!")
So I know a little about both worlds...I repeat A LITTLE!
I know there's a lot of pilots after those GA jobs downunder... but there are also jobs!...you have to agree with me MORE THAN HERE IN EUROPE!!
everything is so close over here compared to OZ, and well connected by train, or plane...to make General Aviation a very tiny sector of the transport industry...very tiny indeed!
Add to that the ABSURD price of petrol and the IMPOSSIBLE taxation from the governments...
and there you have the reason why I say there is a lot more GA flying going on in Oz!
That said ,as usuall ,if you are in the right place in the right moment,and fit the job....
For example:
I got my first job ...because 1 year before I'd washed that aircraft!!
(and yes...as you might guessed it was no "A380".the bugger is so big I'd still be washing!!!)