Originally Posted by raf_wannabe
What do graduates get in comparison to non-graduate entrants in, say, pilot branch? The literature is confusing. Faster promotion?
Faster promotion? Not really. As best I can recall,
Given a non-graduate starting at the same time as the undergraduate starts university the non-graduate should have his wings and be a substantive fg off and near his first operational aircraft at the same time as the other becomes a graduand.
The graduate will then start at the same rank as the non-graduate has now reached but 3 years behind the drag curve as far as pay and expertise goes.
Yer pays yer money and yer makes yer choice