That was not was I was saying, and I have well and truly learnt my lesson about why not to post on pprune. As every forum seems to turn into a slaging match between so called professionals.
The fact is as the terms and conditions across the whole industry decline so does the desirability of the career and the standard of applicant to the industry will follow. The point was not focused on CTC cadets but a need for the industry to have attractive routes in to it.
I was merely trying to defend the fact that there seems to be a feeling that the cadet schemes seem to be considered less legitimate to many and guys joining via this scheme are deserving of poor treatment. When in actual fact they are there to replace the previous direct entry pilots the airlines used to fund which are required.
There is a need to attract quality applicants to the profession competing with other very attractive careers and expecting all pilots to start with a ppl then work for next to nothing for a few years instructing, then move in to small twin job etc in order for the pilot to be consider legitimate does not make for an attractive career. This is compounded with the poor conditions on entering a jet job that the industry is working towards. I did not however state the path was any less legitimate or people taking that path have any less ability.
Zippy your signing off of the post "would I even consider getting involved now? Not on your life." just proves my point. I m sure your a very capable and switched on pilot and due to decline in conditions your saying you wouldn't join the industry, exactly the point i m making. The medical/law reference wasn't ment to be taken literally, but maybe these are the type of career you might have ended up in, had you decided against flying.
Your welcome to read as you will into it, however I won’t be posting again as this is a completely different discussion and I have no intentions to further distract from what started as a well reasoned discussed thread.