I'm not actually against CTC at all and never have been. I didn't train with them either, so good on you for assuming. My point isn't again ANY FTOs infact, they are businesses and their purpose is ultimately to make money and they need to do what they need to do in order to achieve that. My problem is with any kind of training beyond a CPL any time soon and certainly any kind of integrated training. It's immensly frustrating when one is trying to give advice to people who in the main just wont take it. You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
DanConer, at least someone has some sense i.e. you. This is nothing like ever before, the airline industry is so different to 1991 and 2001 etc when there were notable lulls in the industry. And once a pilot with an airline ones FTO is irrelevant, there is no huge excitement or great respect surrounding CTC graduates. Come back down to Earth.