To the junior Scargillites on here foaming at the mouth about PFT/PFJ ... as John Lydon put it: "unlucky you ... well boo hoo". Your demeanor is unlikely to help you get or keep ANY professional job. The game has changed. You didn't see it coming before you borrowed 80-100k to become a 200 hour wonder? - oh well you now have a nice shiny financial darwin award on the mantlepiece to show what great judgement you have. Perhaps you were handicapped by being educated in the GCSE era. You have done nothing that gives you the RIGHT to a job and if someone else can out-compete you for the job you want that's just too bad. Want to bleat about getting the job on merit? What leads you to assume you are a better pilot than people who paid for a TR+500 deal? - you know NOTHING about them.
When the dust settles on this economic clusterf*ck PFT/PFJ will be the only show in town - and you can bet that Eireflot's PFT/SSTR will become PFJ - you think O'Leary won't do that ... or that SleazyJet and others won't follow? There will only be 3 ways to get in:
1. Join the RAF - the sensible route. Would they take you little Scargills? - no chance unless its to test a forward airstrip for landmines the hard way.
2. Be a Tarquin/Araminta ... i.e. daddy has a bottomless wallet to fund your training and PFJ and/or golfs/sails with Willie Walsh/The Bearded One
3. Do something else until you have a cash pile big enough to fund training AND get 1000+ hours via PFJ or just rent a Seminole for however many months it takes to get them. And when you finally get there be prepared to live with the fact that the T&C are no better than a train driver's because there are plenty of other would-be career changers like you so supply exceeds demand in the new, smaller airline industry.
Meanwhile lots of late-noughties vintage low-hour wonders will be washing cars or working at Mickey D's with lapsed qualifications and bankruptcy looming. They have 40 years left to work on another career. To those in that situation who don't come here and rant, I feel genuinely sorry for you. To the Scargillites ... ha ha bl**dy ha
