We look for people who are experienced pilots and not hours builders. The problem with hours builders is they are always looking for an exit and it has to be remembered that it costs us around £15k to train a jump pilot so we want a long term commitment.
£15k?? if you can fly to a decent standard then a decent number of lifts, the minimum is four, should suffice, that is at most about 5 hours flying time. Maybe if you paid someone's ppl fees and then hours building costs afterwards this crazy figure might be reached.