Originally Posted by scratchingthesky
Deano
Did not mean to single you out directly you have the right attitude, but there are so many guys and girls who are sold a dream that I personally believe is not realistic.
I know a guy that joined the Turbo Prop outfit i used to work for on a 3 yr bond to leave after about 6 months as he had been accepted to JET2 on 737. He used the turbo prop rung to get to the next level without having to instruct (lucky him). But not sure I would want to pay back around £10,000 for the turbo proptraining and then enter a new bond with JET2 for £23,000, as well as any other debt.
Its a shame the industry has gone down this route, this brings us back to argument of working for free it ruins the T & C for everyone else that follows. If people accepted that after their commercial training they should instruct to build about 1500 hours then move onto the next rung on the ladder.
Deano good luck with training, if you want to try and get that first job try the outfit at HUY still have courses every month and they pay your type rating if you do not leave before the bonding period.
Scratching, thanks for this, I assume you mean an operator flying white planes with sky blue engines & tails?
Anyway, back to the casing point, I will take anything that comes, I'd be more than happy with a Q400 command in a few years like I said, to me it's irrelevant whether it's a jet or TP, I just want my first job, I want all the training, money spent & sheer bloody hard work to pay off, still a long way to go yet, though, and if I end up instructing for 2 years so be it, I'm at the age where I will do "whatever it takes", but yes people are right, it is a sad sad state of affairs when people are willing to work for nothing, and as someone said already it probably won't end there, there will come a time when wannabes are going to be paying to fly, it is a vicious circle, are the unions not interested in what is happening? I come from the print industry and we have one of the strongest unions in the country, this sort of activity would never ever be tollerated, but in all honesty have the good times gone? with the ever threat of terrorism & rising fuel costs the bean counters are interested in 1 thing, how they can save money, and the easiest way to do it is to hit pilots T & Cs, training costs etc (mainly for new joiners as has been evident)
Dean