1. I agree with what you say, however i also think this point is used too much by the integrated schools in order to justify the increased price of the integrated course and attract students. Some are lucky enough to have access to the funds and good luck to them, but many are getting in massive debt because they believe integrated will get them something that modular will not. They may then find out they need to pay for a type rating as well just to be on an even keel with those same modular guys.
When these airlines call the integrated schools the reason they want people with a proven training record is because they are going to put them through the TR. How many airlines when requiring crews would pick up the phone and just call the TRTO's for their latest graduates, would they then care if they were integrated or modular if they had done well on their TR course? I suspect not.
2. I conceed here
I had been wound up by a certain individual and was having a rant. I certainly didnt mean to say Integrated students were any different to modular. I was struggling to understand why the schools could say integrated were better.
3. I would say, if the job market is good and the airlines (If thats what you want) are recruiting without a TR and you have the cash then it may be a good idea to go integrated so you dont miss the boat. This doesn't seem to be the case at the moment though and whilst i have nothing against that route, i wouldnt advise anyone to get a £70-100k loan to do it at this time. That kind of cash would be much better spent on modular training with a TR in my opinion.
As to the salary/seniority wasted whilst modular, it depends what type of flying you wish to do. I and many other modular students i know will probably take a substantial salary decrease when we get that first job and are already on the property ladder etc so that can work both ways.
Either way, its crazy were all going through this for the privelidge of getting a job, if were not all careful it will get alot worse.
Imagine PPrune in 2015
Is it better to pay for CPL/IR + 747 TR =10,000 hours or just set up my own airline?
