Markieboy, this sentence you wrote,
Airlines obviously don't want to sponsor cadets as they know that they are getting very high standard low hour pilots fresh out of these FTOs.
shows the level of arrogance and maturity you have.
Sorry but I am one of those inferior pilots you refer to, I currently drive a Boeing 737-400/800. I have flown the 300/400/600/700/800. I get paid a dammed good salary and like most of the pilots I know in the industry, went through the system Modular or the good old Self improver.
Your remarks are typical of the intergrated mentality I have seen and despise, I am not for one moment suggesting that all students are like this, just the majority I have come accross.
You're 18 and starting Oxford in September, if I were you I would wind my neck in a little bit sonny boy.
Enjoy your training and I hope you get though the mill in one piece.
All the best, I lookforward to hearing you in the air sometime.
FC