More research seems to show that most people do the modular route for one of two reasons:
- To train while continuing their current job
- To do 'smaller' (probably not the right word) jobs than work for the big airlines.
Given that my aim is to become an airline pilot immediately, it would seem strange to do a modular course, which is generally more fragmented and less consistent than an integrated course, as someone pointed out on another thread here. While a new pilot with ~250 hrs in their log book is far from the ideal candidate for the position of FO, they are at least a blank canvas, who have been trained from the ground up (excuse the pun) to the airline's way of thinking.
Of course, this is all quite one sided here because I haven't considered the modular route too much yet, so I think I'm going to be visiting some modular places. I'm assuming that the CTC & OAA modular courses are too expensive and similar to their Integrated counterparts to consider a viable option? I would ask them about this, but I'm sure I would probably end up with them trying to persuade me to do their integrated course instead.
