Hi Zippy
Im always happy to be put in my place with regards to definitions
I did ask NSF a while back to explain the difference, but he declined.
With regards to the CTC thing. My assumption, which is where we may have the greatest level of misunderstanding, is that these guys
were P2F people in the past, who have completed their TR and done their P2F 150-300 hours already...... last summer or whenever.... and have since been in a pool waiting for contract work or a permanent job and these are the guys that are going to be on contract this year.
MY point....... and this is not directed at any company in particular......... is that P2F schemes do exist. If they exist in ANY company, i think there is a degradation of Safety in that company. And once one company gets away with it, others follow. And being somewhat cynical i bet that airlines that have to make redundancies do so with a little over 6 months away from when they need to start ramping up again for the summer season so they can recruit contractors. ( I stand to be corrected on employment law)
One of the problems you/easy will always have is that J CRUD appears to be an Easy TC and therefore, if it looks like s**t and it smells like s**t, people are always going to interpret it as s**t. After all his little side line business is obviously VERY familiar with the P2F cancer as has been alluded to by NSF in a previous post
All of these schemes have been designed to get inexperienced and therefore cheaper people into the cockpit and now it looks as though contractors are going to be used as Captains instead of promoting within......(again, please correct me) and no one seems to give a stuff about the safety implications.
Please don't patronise me. Do you think I don't know this already?! I can assure you my glasses are not in the slightest bit 'orange-tinted'. I'd love to explain in more detail............
Apologies, i didnt mean it to come across like that.......... its was more a result of the frustration i feel when people only seem to want to get involved when it affects them...... not those below them.... and again thats not pointed at you.... more of a general comment.
Finally, now it's affecting others, eyes are slowly beginning to open.
Presumably, you must have a very flat head
Anyway i'll PM you as hopefully you can help me with something loosly related.
Regards
GW