Its pretty easy to think that if things are done in a different way to the way you did it its all wrong. In the bad old days, you paid ya money, got ya ticket and went north to defy death in some clapped out piece of cr@p and got paid nothing. Now, there is an offer to help out with paying for the ticket, and a job offer at the end, and its got to be wrong.
RAAFies have been putting low houred fellas in right and left hand seats for years. Airlines all around the world are doing it, and have been doing it for years. And it seems to work. And b@gga me, they seem to pay these fellas a whole lot more in Europe as well.
Perhaps you don't need thousands of hours in a 210 to be able to fly a small turbo-prop or jet....who would have guessed.
The more jobs the better. About time there was some good news in Oz aviation.
Don