Let's get one thing straight about self funded type ratings. We live in a democracy. If someone has the resources, or is willing to indebt himself, to self fund a rating, then that is his democratic and free right. If this lifts him up the employment ladder a bit, then that is his paid-for benefit, and Iīm afraid it is nobody elseīs business. Why you expect BALPA to 'step in and do something about this īproblemī' I donīt know!