14 years of doing this and Wannabes still don't grasp that a CPL/IR is like a driving licence. Its a test you take for a couple of hours, with an examiner who is ticking boxes on a test sheet, which results in a license being printed and issued.
Whether you trained at the BSM/AA school of motoring amazingness in a brand new Mini, or, whether Dodgy Dave in his knackered 05 plate Corsa instructed you on your parallel park REALLY DOESN'T MATTER.
You've still only got a couple of hundred hours, you know nothing, you're crap.
You've got a license to learn.
There are "times" when airlines need so many unplanned unexpected pilots that they pick up the phone to the large schools and order two dozen for interview please. Those times are rare and last occurred in 2006. They are highly unlikely to be seen until the other end of this economic cycle.
They only call the large Integrated school because it is bloody difficult to phone 24 smaller flying schools, get the CFI on the phone and get him to give you the contact details of the best student he's seen in the last 6 months. Large FTO's has a nice lady who can do this with 30 minutes notice. Its that blunt. When push comes to shove major airlines have just called up type rating providers like GE and asked for the names and mobile number of anyone who went through there in the last 3 months, then called them, then hired most of them.
No question of where they trained, what their A-Levels were or could they work in a team trying to build a model of Big Ben out of pencils. A license, a type rating, a pulse and willing to be here on Tuesday..
What matters at the moment is staying in a slow game. Which generally means lowest debt serviceable for the longest time whilst applying for three years to airlines. Unless you can get into CTC or pay the RYR £30k type rating and take a chance they'll keep you busy.
What doesn't matter is the 'quality' of your driving test lessons and whether you could do a good hill start. No one really cares.
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