So you have to pay them $50,000 cash, and have $50,000 deducted from your meager salary.
What happens if the company goes bust?
Do you get your $50,000 back?
Also, what happens when another pilot signs up whose willing to give them another $50,000?
Very, very, very risky.
And if they're this cheap with the pilots, you can only imagine what's going on in the maintenance department.