Difficult Selection??
Hello Gabriele,don't get me wrong,good for you that you made it,but I wouldn't call the selection tough...about 50 questions,10 of which blank,and a personal interview,they don't even check you out in the sim...3 week of ground school,2 of which on your own,and than they send you out to get typed,belive me,somewhere else thing are a lot more complicated than that,not talking about italy.....
and regarding the kick in the butt to get in,maybe some times it's true,few people get lucky without it,but apparently flight experience doesn't garantee you a job in italy.Good luck to you....