"Is it time to accept bonding as the only acceptable contribution of candidate towards type rating or training."
Funny thing that statement. Not to many years ago I remember us b1tching about training bonds on PPRUNE when they where the norm and we all felt that surely if the company needs you, it must have training built into it's cost base and the way to stop someone else poaching your recently trained pilots was to have great T&C's and trust me it is not all about money.
Don't get me wrong ,bonding is better than paying but still not correct
If that is the way our collective viewpoint has been changed then the beancounters are slowly winning and our profession is doomed.
Do these self same beancounters have to pay or sign a bond to complete there articles to become a CA, I think not. They may work on reduced wages until fully qulified but they don't pay or sign a bond that needs repaying (another way of paying for your rating) if they leave before a certain time.
