"For me the risk of another 50k strapped to my parents"
Are you serious? I mean you only discover this now, after you just discovered that you have acquired fATPL, sorry, you have CPL / MEIR!
Why did you not do your research before you started your training?
I guess you did, but ignored it, because you did not like the numbers you saw, and knew it would have been impossible to convince your parents for even more money!
So you took a gamble, a long shot! And it did not pay off!
It's not rocket science! It's simple basic maths! You, me, all, think they are the lucky chosen ones, but guess what, the odds are heavily against you and all of us!
I will tell you another thing, you get your TR, you will think before, oh yes, after TR I will be good!!! Nope you will not, still after passing your TR test, you know nothing, your skills are almost worthless, until you get experience flying the beast!
And so the story goes on, never-ending story!
"Why industry allows trainees to lose potential up to 80k or have to pay again because it's not regulated. Why is it?"
Again, are you serious? I mean, where you want to live? In old communist Russia? Where Big Brother tells you what to do, and not to do! I am sure you would have cried foul, if you had been told you would not be able to follow your dream, and train to be a pilot!
Nobody is going to hold your hand, you over 18, you are an adult, and you are supposed to take decisions yourself, I mean you want to be able to fly a big shiny jet, but you do not want to have responsibility for the decisions you have made for yourself?
Man up! You are young, got time on your side, go do some instructing, enjoy some basic flying for a while, don't worry about tomorrow yet! Get some experience, and sooner or later you will get a chance, and you will have experience that you will be happy for!
but when it's 95% of the time linked to the size of your wallet rather than actual ability or dedication it is wrong.
Well with some of your questions, you have not actually convinced to many about ability, as you was seriously lacking in basic Air Law knowledge!
I am still in my own process, and I can promise you one thing, the step up from fATPL to the next Airline level, it will be like you have been hit in the head by Concorde, so steep is the learning curve, knowledge requirement, and maybe because my head is a little bit older and slower, but I averaged 95% on my ATPL's, had 100% in Gen Nav and Met, but compared to what the airlines require, that was NOTHING!
Real life is not multiple choice options waiting for you to at least have a 50/50 chance, it was a 15 minutes detailed explanation about the Fuel Planning, Hold and 4 performance segments, and when I say detailed, I mean word perfect from the text books, memorizing alone, would not have been good enough!
I was stunned, still am actually, only thanks to a few good friends, that gave me extremely good advice along the way, did I manage to keep up the motivation, study and continued working hard to try to get close to my goal!
Jugs, this is not to knock you down, but make you understand, if you think you have had it hard until now, wait, it will get much worse, before I hope it starts getting better!
Me and a friend went with a very experienced TRE (friend), for him to give us some sim training to brush up on IR skills, after 6 hours in the sim, my friend on the way back home told me he was going to quit flying, so hard had we been pushed by the TRE (who was a friend), that he said to me, no way I will ever be good enough, he was almost crying!
Today he is flying for an airline as a first officer!
Last edited by truckflyer; 16th Oct 2012 at 04:03.