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Old 29th October 2009 | 19:58
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PilotsOfTheCaribbean
 
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None that I am aware of. The point was what will likely happen when an accident occurs that involves a 200 hour pilot, not that it may be caused by the presence of one. The Hamble scheme was very much a graduate and extremely selective programme that came with a highly structured monitoring programme. There was a career progression that allowed successful graduates to embark on a normal B.A career structure and salary scale. Its scope and result clearly wasn't used as a method of shoehorning warm bodies into the right hand seat at low or no cost. It was a very real cost for the company, such that it was eventually contracted out to established commercial flight training schools, with the company bearing the cost of the graduates progression.

"Right training" as you put it, is always what matters, however I cannot see how that should be a substitute for an experience base of 1500 hours and a full ATPL as well. This is a new revenue stream for the companies that have exploited the "Hamble factor" into an art form.

Aztruck, I don't know if this is your primary and only source of income, but I would be surprised that you would be so cavalier in your comments if it was. If you have a pension from another company or another source of income, of course you don't mind working for degraded terms and conditions, who would?
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