"For a start only about 10% of the guys who apply to a particular well-known FTO are accepted on to the course after a stringent two day assessment."
Not true, some of their testing is a joke, stringent? Have a look at Lufthansa etc., than come and talk about stringent!
"Secondly, some major airlines use the training history and recommendations from the FTO to short-list the best candidates for interview. Their individual selection procedure then skims off the cream from that bunch. So to say they have no ‘actual ability or dedication’ is simply unfounded, unsubstantiated and untrue."
Yes, you have been sold the whole sales pitch from CTC, OAA and whoever else does these programs!
I do disagree with lot in Jugs post, but unless some of you youngbies, newbies, get a realistic view of what is ahead, you will eventually hit a brick wall!
And I do not feel it is fair, that my tax money should be used to cover your as...es, when you decide to declare yourself bankrupt to get out of debts!
Fact is that the majority of modular and integrated trained pilots, unless they have the patience to go for other options, will end up giving up on their dream! But than again, if they can't bare the pain, maybe it was never their dream anyway!
New pilots getting jobs vs pilots trained, does not add up, unless you listen to totally biased FTO sales pitch, than they will tell you the world is lacking pilots! Which might be true, however they avoid to tell you, they are lacking Captains to fly A320, somewhere in ChinaChomba! Good luck with realism!
Last edited by truckflyer; 16th October 2012 at 14:48.