PLovett,
You may be suprised to know that many here think Cadetships can work and are a good thing, just not in its present format.
Cadetships should not be about:
* fleecing applicants for a whole brief case of Mummy and Daddys money,
* used as a means to lower employment standards within the industry.
* used as a means to employ a captive and quite compliant workforce ( a quite compliant workforce is not essentially a safe workforce ),
Cadetships should be about ( IMHO, like the QF cadetships was ):
* succession planning,
* providing quality training ( "spending lots of money on training" and "providing quality training" are not always the same thing or directly related ), and,
* used in 2nd officer positions, I would hate to be PIC in an aircraft with a Cadet beside me who is experiencing a rough night on one engine for the first time.....
How can "Cadets" and "Direct Entry" Pilots be on the same seniority list ?.