Originally Posted by flyingpicket
You decide to go along to an open day at one of the well-known flight training establishments and are subjected to a slick marketing operation, which makes timeshare sharks look like amateurs. In addition to a free lunch, and an inspiring presentation, you get fed some impressive employment statistics. And while they can’t actually promise you a job at the end of the day, they do provide a list of the placements they’ve made with different airlines - averaging 200 a year!
There seriously needs to be an impartial source of information about job prospects and conditions that every single person who considers training has to have shoved in their face to negate the utter rubbish the FTOs spin out to visitors. Very few people will question anything they hear them say. After all - 'they know what they're talking about'.
I know there's GAPAN - but do many who visit flying schools and who are new to aviation even know of their existence? The biggest threat to long-term conditions lies in the supply-side. Anything that can be done to cut the numbers training - usually on false pretences - will go a long way.