Originally Posted by Chairmanofthebored
Trying to find a regulatory body to commence this idea would be harder than pulling the teeth on a croc guarding her eggs and the backlash from the training schools losing their cheap labour... priceless.
POSSIBLE structure?
CPL graduate apprentice – 1st year apprentice pilot (hanger slave, engineering assistant) – 2nd year apprentice (marketing, field work, ferry flights)
3rd year senior apprentice (ferry pilot, maintenance flights, tourism and photography, intro to commercial work, commence ATPL studies or fulltime Co-pilot position)
4th year – Final year senior apprentice (commercial work, ATPL subject completed)
Post this and with 1000hrs PIC you can voluntarily start Instructor Training.
What do you think?
I think your first and largest hurdle would be to
demonstrate that a problem exists rather than just
believe that a problem exists. Until then, you'll find precious few takers for your plan.
Hmm, and suppose nobody "volunteers" to instruct - after all, why would they? Well, at least we'd get our for-real pilot shortage at last!