Originally Posted by POS_INIT
P2F is so much more than paying to sit in an aircraft, you gain an even deeper understanding of your equipment, you get use to how an airline works and what qualitys you need to posses, your learn so much!! its invaluable experince.
Surely, the most important quality which a
professional pilot has to posses is ability to pay airline loads of money instead of actually getting paid for working.
Originally Posted by POS_INIT
no one should be left behind.
Currently, there is a surplus of wannabe pilots over available jobs. This doesn't mean that everybody will get employed, but the math is simple... If there are 100 unemployed pilots and 10 positions available, airline would hire the best 10 pilots from the list of 100. Or - in your case - airline management see that pilots with wet CPL are [insert more or less polite noun describing P2F pilots] and decides that it's best to allow 10 P2F pilots to pay for 500 hours and then exchange them for 10 new guys with wet CPL...
The sad truth is - not everyone who is finanically able to fund CPL is jet airliner material... CPL and IR pass standards are set relatively low - they are design to test if a pilot is safe, not if one has the ability to progress further down route.