Excrab, You are obviously a delicate soul and so I have ammended my post to remove the lines that might have offended you , I would suggest you re-read the post I responded to and perhaps with a little reflection you may see why I felt the need to respond. I'm neither a management pilot nor a wannabee, as to me being arragant, I'm so good I don't need to be.
Your comment on working at Theifair is naive at best but if you think they would be such a great outfit to work for then seeya! Your silly comment on career progression I'll put down to typing while drunk!
FLYINGCAMEL.
You ask some reasonable questions so I'll try to give you some reasonable answers.....
Basing. You will find out where you are to be based on your first day of induction. There is every chance you get a base in the south but historically the northern bases are more likely as less people tend to want to live up there. The basing situation is not ideal and maybe in the future the recruiters will wake up and organise themselves sufficiently to allow recruitment for a specific base. If you suggest in the interview that you would not accept a job unless you were offered Southampton for instance then there is a chance it would go against you but better than a divorce 12 months down the road perhaps.
Hand flying.
You can handfly but your question suggests you don'y quite get the ethos behind flying modern aircraft. They are designed to be flown by autopilot and almost all of your Type training will be geared to that. That said there is plenty of chance to handfly when you can.
Duty pay.
2-400 pounds a month. Obviously drops when you take leave as you fly less.
Green thing.
What a load of tosh in my view! I can't imagine that any pilot at Flybe seriously thinks we are being 'green'. I pity you if you have to convince an interview panel of it!
TP hours vs 738.
It's got to come down to how you feel about paying for a type rating. Lets face it a 738 will win with MOL or another 738 operator but plenty of guys move to jet operators without paying for a jet type rating. Personally, I think most of our problems as an industry come down to the fact the bean counters have found people so willing to pay for type ratings and medicals and the like out of their own pockets. I appreciate that most or many would not have got a job without doing so and so I see why they have but it's short sighted. I don't think it's an exgageration to say it's ruining our industry as a whole.
