My beef with people self funding type ratings is only down to the standard of the guys who get jobs because of a rich daddy!!! Quite frankly I cannot even comment on whether I would self fund as I am in no financial position to make that committment. What I will say though is I went to flight school with many different calibers of pilot ranging from excellent to downright dodgy at best (the kind of guys who would struggle at Mc Donalds). One such ex student after taking 3 and a half years to graduate, having to do all ATPLs again as they failed them all first time around, failed countless flight tests and had a terrible attitude has just bagged a 737 job after their father bought them a type rating!!! They are fling a 737 whilst myself who didnt have the money to self fund and passed everything first time is left flying small aircraft, hardly and hours and hardly an income to speak of. Its simple self sponsored type ratings lower the overall standard in the industry!!!