Guy's
Everyday I hear this thing about shortage of pilots e.t.c.
Well, I have always wondered one thing, why is it that the airlines in europe and especially here in the UK don't find it in their interest to sponsor their nationals who are fully qualified with F.A.A. CPL or even ATPL to their own license. Would it not bring down the cost considerably to them and even the time it takes, as to doing the full sponsorship course.
I have met so many of them in the UK and even in the US some who got their US qualification by hard work, and are first class aviators in their own right, all still struggling to find the funds to convert.
After all most of the institutions in the UK and most part of europe that operate these schemes with the airlines do most if not all the flight training in the US now.
Would it do any harm to put up a sponsorship scheme for these guys.
This does not mean that I am in anyway against their current full sponsorship course.
Regards
Zazoo