Scroggs,
Would you please elaborate on what you see as the difference between...
(largely US) 'co-pilot' programmes that expect you to pay to fly well beyond the normal type- and line-training period.
and.....
Line-training schemes, on the other hand, are not.....they are in no way immoral or unjustifiable.
When some european schemes are offering 300 hours line training (advertised recently with no job offer) and some others, from what other SSTR buyers on this website have said, even more, what is the difference that you talk about and how are they not immoral? You are still taking someone who should be paid, out of a job because that line training is being conducted in a passenger or cargo carrying operation. Its not a bunch of people who buy a TR and then do some cost sharing to build their hours!!!!
OSOP