sorry, I hate these threads, but nevertheless another thought (or two)
- There will always be people who are exceptional and achieve ridiculously in the ATPLs....either in terms of knocking them out quickly, or in terms of getting stupidly high marks...like the recent OAA grad who finished them all with only 2 questions wrong in 14 papers and a 99.8% average....
- Ryanair is NOT a neverending supply of low hour jobs. Those who think the OAA guys going there is humouress in that they've spent so much more to get the job than a modular guy, might care to consider that those 44 (?) jobs are 44 that DIDN'T go to modular students....and as far as I can tell FYR seems to be the holy grail [or best chance for a jet job, if you prefer] for most mod students. So, if you can't get into FYR because the integrated students have taken the spots that you may previously have had and none of the other companies who ARE recruiting will take modular (BA are still hiring, Flybe are hiring, but getting very picky on modular), is your thirty grand saving worth a piss in the ocean?
It's a rhetorical question. Yes, FYR will continue to hire mod pilots and that's a good thing, but people seem to get obsessed with the "vast savings you make on a mod course"....but then forget, as 99jolegg alluded to earlier, that that saving is only actually a saving if you manage to get a job at all....and there in lies the crux.
It's kind of like all those people claiming they made ten kazillion on their house through the property boom....no they didn't, because to realise it, they'd have to buy somewhere else which has equally risen in value.