Gentlemen -
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Read my posts in the North American Forum "USA Pilot Shortage"...
It is not any different than your situation in UK or Europe.
You are out of your mind to pay a penny for a rating, and buy yourself a job.
And what job...? Underpaid...?
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The winners are (1) flight schools (2) airlines (particularly LCCs)...
They laugh on their way to the banks to make their deposits...
Whose fault...? -
YOURS
In the old days, you would have paid CPL/IR/ME... nada más - rien de plus...
Some airlines operated their own school and
paid trainees during training.
But an idiot started this, in the mid-1970s, of offering to pay for his rating, and buy himself a job.
So the next idiots did the same...
And it is getting worse ever since... MCC this, then fATPL that, then jet rating, here we go...!
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Happy contrails