Hi PHF
Good job I didn’t lay any money on how many PMs you got!!!!!
If I remember correctly DEA want close (within 10%) 700hrs total time with a preference for instructor experience and ex military, indeed most of their senior people seem to be ex mil.
They’ve certainly changed their policies lately, they were recruiting a couple years back and ‘only’ wanted the new hires to pay half their line training fees (about £5k I think) up front and then agree to a bond for the other half. I assume that they’ve had bad experiences with pilots scarpering off soon after completing their training hence the large bond. I suppose under this deal if you last out the 2 years then you’ve paid nothing at all for training.
Perhaps if they were to offer a better salary and full time employment they might see better pilot retention and won’t need to impose such a hefty bond or maybe the bond is just too much of a nice little earner if someone doesn’t last out the 2 years.
Good luck to anyone that chooses to apply.