That sucks now I'm digesting that info since you've highlighted that, so when you're not working no chance of signing on or going and getting contract work for a few months to keep the wolf from the door?
However these questions may be irrelevant if full contracts are offered at the end of summer 2011 as it looks like has happened this year with Jet2 and TCX.
The 100+ pilots they bring in can't all be put through the sims and line checked together, there is also no point in LPC/OPCing someone not to use them for 3 months because they'd lose their 3 T/O's and landings in the previous 90 days.