Cleared-touch-and-go, most people on here agree with you.
If you have the cash or means of getting it then good luck to you, if you have worked hard and saved the money for an integrated course then well done. That is a hell of an acheivement in its own right.
The problem is alot of people who dont have the cash will borrow it. This may make sense in a time where the industry is booming and likely to be for the foreseable future. That is not the case at the moment. It is not enough for things to just level out, there will still be many pilots out there who have been made redundant. There may be even more by the time your qualified. Things will have to be considerably better before low houred fATPL's are getting jobs. There will always be the odd few and the schools will parade these around as marketing material but its just as likely they got in due to contacts in the industry or being in the right place at the right itme than their choice of training route.
If people like OAA are still marketing their product at people who require a big loan then they should be ashamed of themselves, but hey, they are a business after all. Banks have teams of experts there to assess risk when lending money, the current problems are caused in part to them lending money to people who were too risky. Even these banks are starting to stop the loans for an fATPL. What does that tell you?
If you cannot afford Integrated (or anything else for that matter) without taking on a huge loan and you cannot work to save for it, then guess what? you cant have it. If more people thought this way the country would not be sinking in debt.
Im not saying that you cant get an fATPL. You can get exactly the same licence, but if you borrowing money then why do it the most expensive way?
Last edited by Prophead; 9th October 2008 at 08:41.