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Old 7th Apr 2012, 17:54
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Ha! Its a ploy by the Europeans to stop all their pilots from going over to the States in droves because it is more cost effective to train in the States and the training is more pragmatic - as opposed to cripplingly expensive. The training industry in the States will only be catering for richy richies of which there are less than normal poories.
The flood of thousands of pilots will cease and brilliant schools like some national schools in the States will go down the pan as there will be plenty of instructors, with few to train.

Surely, the difference between a twin Cessna in the filth at night is actually good training but is far removed from the ambiance of an airliner flightdeck and in-the-same-loop CRM and all the rest of it in the rarified atmosphere and noise at FL410

but, who wants to be a Captain anyway, until you have got well used to being in the right seat and benefitted from ever greater depths of absolutes and worldly knowledge from el Capitano.
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