gambol
Some people will understand your point of you which is almost inline with current aviation market scene in our country but rest who have myopia or p!ssed filled brain won't relate with your views.
Airlines all over world are doing biz but few wise people here think's otherwise and in biz things always go in " stop-start-stop " way.So in one year you will see airlines running to fill vacant positions and in next year they will not even return calls due to severe over crowding of manpower.
billboard
You are wrong, people are leaving for the type rating because they know airlines are creating more and more openings for the type rated people and they are preferring type rated pilots over the CPL lots. They know if they will get the rating then their prospect of getting into an airline will become much bright over the Non-typerated ones. (bright only for aspirants with aptitude and brains).
Agree. But what is going to happen in a year or two? Instead of just plain CPL holders cribbing about unemployment, we will have a sizable number of type rated CPL holders cribbing about unemployment. The size of Indian aviation is just not big enough to absorb a "reasonable" percentage of the unemployed CPL holders with or without a type rating!
I believe in free market dynamics. If people want to spend 45-50 lakhs just to attain the privilege to apply for a job in a fledgling industry, its their choice. But when making an investment, there is something known as "stop-loss." CPL holders who have not yet got a type-rating might want to read about it.
Either you are not Indian or aware of Indian aviation's current behavior or you are utterly pessimistic seeing TYPE rated pilots with bare minimum getting jobs over you and alike.
Don't kid yourself or others with blanket statements like this.If given opportunity with easy access to finances , you will be first one to run after a rating with or without assurance from airlines.
Reason for getting rated on big boy's-
1. In India , Rated pilots are given preference due to limited training cost incurred by airlines.
2. Rated pilots are placed first in those airlines which depends on external training facilities.
3. General Aviation in India is non existent, those who publishes jobs for charters actually ask you to pay for " rating + training + hours + all others sh!ts " which will always cost anything above 25L Rs.
4. Rating is almost now a Standard for Airline's in India as per last few years recruitment stats.
Brightest of lot be it plain vanilla CPL holders rated pilots have got job's in last 5 years due to their sheer skill's and knowledge.Those lacking them improved their skills and got placed rest started cribbing and destroying this field by doing P2F's /Bribing their way in before getting booted out being poor.Glut or unemployment of rated pilots is nothing new as its been pilling up since 2009 for 737 and will go even more but for skilled person this should not bother.
The most important factor of unemployment was bubble created by GOI's civil aviation ministry to mop up under table gains.
Family's who wanted to cash in monetary gains of having sons or daughters as pilot with fat pay by reading " get CPL in 6 months , Job in 12 months with 24 Lakh's p.a " adverts in national dailies.
Then came Mallya and his KFA....single most destructive thing that happened to every pilot looking for job which flooded market 320/ATR experienced pilots.
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IndiGo conducted exams every month for more than a year from May 2010 to August 2011.
Really? That is news for me! No wonder they have a surplus of pilots now. No wonder they have put their Mar 2012 recruitment on hold and haven't yet declared the results of the April 2013 written.
Recruitment is on hold due to KFA's experienced pilots.
Do you even know how many ex-KFA pilots are in Indigo or Jet or Spice right now ?
Re-Quoting RDR's pointers which simpifies why we are lagging in aviation.
The problem with Indian aviation, is India, and boils down to three simple factors
1. a monarchy masquerading as a democracy
2. a national culture where no Indian can stand watching another do well
3. a level of unsurpassed greed and thieving which is now accepted as
normal
Truth is we are ever expanding country with population but our thinking and views remained stagnant since pre-independence governed by ancient dated rules.
Those who got financial power always takes chances and in our culture family support plays a big part which for some unknown reason non indian's can't understand and are always referring why " Daddies and Mommies pay for their kids training ", may be they don't know the meaning of family structure or didnt had luxury of sugar parents.
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