I know of one youg lady who having flown floats and fire for a few years obtained funding to renew her I/R, then went on to being a training captain on turbines now flys for an airline, the tax department has more than made back their investment by now, the folks handing out the money need to know more about the industry so they dont go funding a 747 rating for a 400 hour wonder , when I see the money pissed away on the TC fleet {so they can land gear up, come out of cloud inverted and all that stuff} its hard to begrudge a few bucks being spent on a kid on the way up the food chain.