Clearly this has become another superiority battle integrated vs modular. Why can't we just get on with the actual training? Simply because the likes of the OAT have to create an atmosphere of fearful exclussion if you don't get on board with them. Yes Integrated is great but like I mentioned before the practical aspects of life forbid many if not the majority from pursuing this course of action. Left with the modular route the students can be assured that at the end of it the chap from the CAA will still grill them under medium-welldone (How I like my BBQ
).
The only problem I have is this relentless targetting of modular students portrayed by OAT, FTE, etc as sub-class. Civil flight training is not military, there are numerous real life concerns that need to be taken into consideration, i.e. people with families, changing careers, AFFORDABILITY, training schedules to fit around work commitments (we would all like to get a couple of weeks from work but that isn't possible, this is the UK not Socialist France). The guy how takes on this kind of 'load' even before initiating training is a real hero, heroine. Integrated have by-passed much in life and perhaps (with the exception of a
few) are young and probably didn't have to work for their money to begin training. This rubbish about I took out a loan, what does that mean you can fill out an application, do you have any idea how much that money is? I
don't have anything against integrated but I do have a problem when I am somehow sub-standard. Pretty much the whole of the US training establishment is modular but they have more aircraft flying safely through their and International skies than anyone else. Yep Flight safety has an integrated course but are they the only ones who can get jobs, I doubt it.
A fresh faced chap and a veteran Sergeant both begin officer training at Sandhurst....... do you get the picture and how it applies to Integrated and Modular.