I understand that you want to move up to bigger aircraft Fly1981 but your experience should be enough without having to pay for the job
There is altogether too much of this pilots paying for ratings and young guys working for nothing while daddy pays the bills etc.,
The salaries paid to contract pilots will never improve while this nonsense persists. As Twotter so rightly says, the effects on the industry are insidious. As an operator bidding on a contract, you are up against people who are paying peanuts to guys desperate to get hours so that they can apply for jobs with airlines. The result is that you have to tailor your bid with this in mind. The only way to do that is for you to offer minimal salaries. And so it goes on. Same with safety. The old "if you won't do it, there are dozens who will" syndrome. Always some desperate ouk who will fly for bugger all just to get a job. In a world where pilots buy their own ratings, what becomes of the good pilots who can't afford that. Answer. The jobs go to the guys with the most money. Some system of pilot selection that is
I have never paid for a rating and never will.
End of rant. FF.
