Here it is for all those new boys and girls out there.
If you buy your FATPL for anything more than £30k you have wasted your money. If you are smart and play the system right, that is all it should cost you!!
For that reason, if you have a £100k debt then you are a mug because you will have to pay it back and you could have got away with paying a lot less.
This then leads onto the desperation to get that first jet job so you can pay the money back and hence the desire to "work for free" so you can pay it back ASAP!
If you hadnt clocked up such a big debt then you wouldnt be so desperate to get the experience to get that job that pays so much!!
Lastly, whats wrong with flying singles, instucting, towing gliders, taking photos, flying light twins when you have the hours etc etc then turbos etc etc.
People have forgotten what flying is really about and the arrogance and percieved ability that some of the new jet pilots (of my generation), coupled with a complete denial about what working for free does to Ts and C's just frightens me!
OSOP
P.S. There will be an accident at some point with a 250 hour f/o in the RHS and only then will people wake up to the reality of what is actually happening today!