You know it really worries me after reading these posts that so many of you are considering paying up to 18k for your own type ratings!
For what? Sure the experience will be worth while but wake up please!! 18K????
No airline is interested in somebody who has a type rating and no experience on type! This is merely putting cash in the pockets of the businesses that operate these courses, it really is not benefitting you enough for the amount of money it costs!
You'd be far better off investing in a decent MCC course and or an instructors rating to build more hours and gain experience that way.
IMHO, and that is all it is, I believe that you guys are shooting not only yourselves in the feet but also the other poor studes out there also looking for a job at the end of already shifting £50k on a course!
Please dont let the airlines EXPECT us to pay for our own type ratings in future, by building those foundations now, for your own sakes.
I personnally will be investing in the AQC, after IR, and am very much looking forward to it, but I would not even consider paying so much money for a type rating when the airlines would want to retrain you anyway in accordance with their own operating proceedures.