Line training: the debate
Seeing as countless people who come onto these forums now seem to be asking about line training programs, I thought it would be useful for them to be able to read the opinions on these schemes of actual operating pilots, not just of the people who do them but of the damage they do to the flying industry.
I hope this will begin to open people's eyes on the status these pay-to-fly persons are given, both good and bad (I suspect there will be more one than the other), and they will actually consider the fact that they are being told how they will be seen by the wider pilot body. Which is in reality a very, very small community, and is comprised of the people who will one day be interviewing you for a job when the question 'so I see here that you had your first 150 hours with [insert company name]...what's that all about?' arises. Glad I never had to answer that one with my pilot recruiter.
I would start but I'm eating my lunch.
Discuss.