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Old 28th Aug 2006, 00:46
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Lucifer
 
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Single question:

Did you ever do any selection to determine your ability before paying over the cash?

Paying for modular training, unselected, and on a course which you know is not what an airline prefers is not only highly risky but highly foolish. Considering the market has probably now passed its peak, it can only be a salutory lesson for someone considering investing his cash, that a hardworking modular chap cannot find an airline job.

The airlines want a low training risk person, with one verifiable training record who can be trained in minimum time from a known standard.

If you have not followed all the advice here and elsewhere and done something else, then I am sorry, but the market has decided.

We are not in a game of charity here - there are too many people who desparately want to be pilots. And that quite frankly leads to too many people giving too much to be pilots, and doing it the cheap does not help at all.

Consider this - there is a reason integrated students are employed above all others. And it is not due to a conspiracy. It is (surprisingly) as they are what the airlines want.


As an aside - watch the X Factor and consider how different the terrible pop star wannabes are from all those who want to get into flying, and ignore all advice, and play it by their own rules. There may be some who make it, but most do not.
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