Originally Posted by I like planes
a fraternal handshake between BRK's kiddies
They do actually move some numbers from 'this' column to 'that' one I think and of course every new airframe comes with a number of TR courses. Still, they could easily have charged for the ratings citing airlines as the precedent and you know what? Some daft buggers would have paid.
I suppose that's what irritates me about the whole SSTR thing. For years the bizjet market was the best kept secret in aviation and if truth be known most people in the airlines looked down on it. A small price to pay to keep the secret imho, one gladly paid. Then what happened? Airline T&C's began to degrade and airline crew started to enviously eye some fancy machinery parked our side of the apron. Fair enough, keep your voice down and you can come in but keep schtum about it, ok? "Righto" they said and
then what happened? Some GA/bizjet operators then saw that people were daft enough to buy their type ratings in the airline world so started charging and now it's harder for people to get started in 'our' arm of the business. There's a steady trickle of airline people posting in the bizjet forum making no secret of the fact that they'll buy their own type rating to get into the market, some of them with multi-thousand hours.
It's a bit like having pikeys* as neighbours. They bring down house prices and to add insult to injury the weeds from their garden spread to yours
* The appearance of the word 'pikey' in a RYR thread is pure coincidence
