Age Commensurate with experience
Many sponsored schemes will only take younger people
Airlines prefer to train their own people when they are young
ignoring the pool of labour already trained up
The chances of employment without high hours when you
are middle aged are significantly reduced.
Look at the Flying schools and ask youself why Joe Bloggs
with all the bells and whistles is not with an airline - its
often not by choice. The salaries are often derisory.
Often the CAAFU examiners have never flown multi-crew!
Is it because they prefer GA or because they are too old?
Like it or not this is a very competitive industry and of the c11,000
ATPL holders in the UK and c4,000 CPL holders you will find that many are still at the bottom of the food chain
The CAA know how many of these hold multi-crew ratings
but strangely no information on this is present on their web site
We should be told.
I know of a guy who got his first airline job at 53 he was
a high houred 509 instructor with a lot of multi time.