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It is about time that the student loan funding students into flying came to a complete stop! All it is doing is literally flooding the industry with more brand new helicopter pilots. There are a large number of these guys showing up overseas, Canada/Australia/USA etc and are faced with the same problems they had when they were in NZ. It has been encouraged by some of these training organisations that there are jobs out there for them. There are even some training organisations that do not even have the appropriate licenses or approvals to be carrying out such training. These guys are using the training system to fund them through their debts. This is getting serious! Its not fair on the the students or the industry in general. Sooner or later these guys are going to be faced with serious dissapointment. There is a huge number of guys out there with helicopter pilot licenses in hand that used the student loan system to pay for it but have never used it and have given up.