Originally Posted by bermudatriangle
SJM glad all worked out for you.....just bear in mind many of your fellow pilots ,who are already upto £70,000 out of pocket,might just not be able to afford the cost of a type rating.Nice if you can afford to keep shelling out,but is it really ethical for employers to expect pilots to fund all their flight training ?
No it's not. But the reality is that there are a lot of pilots who are competing for a limited no of jobs. An I bet that most would do a lot to get ahead of the others...
I don't know how it is in the UK but in Sweden there is a government funded school for airline pilots where people can get their training for free. BUT only about 24 people every year get a chance to train there and the selection process is tough... this is also unfair, why should some get it for free and others don't.
But this is the world we live in, not everything is as it should...
But what can we pilots do to change the airlines minds about training...
Nothing...
The only thing that's going to make them start paying for training is a time when there aren't enough pilots compared to the no of flights needed to be done...