Pots and kettles to be honest.
you are picking and choosing statements to suit.
So I make a statement on UK company's hiring predominately modular trained pilots.
Then I make a statement about the numbers moving on to bigger things from my fleet type.
Neither of them are connecting. They just answer points about
a) Modular pilots never getting hired.
b) It being impossible to escape the lower end of the market once your foot is in the door.
And you will have noticed at no point have I said anything about the quality of the training. Which I accept is good for automated flight decks.
The only thing I have been commenting on is the likely hood of the paying the premium and getting zero benefit from paying the extra for the majority considering it.
And go and look through the employment stats for the big three and you can even work out which operator has been hiring TP pilots as 747 FO's with huffing and puffing behind them. Some of them have already managed to get "home" back to a UK 747 AOC holder. One of them was Zero to 747 FO in 5 years I think.
Last edited by mad_jock; 10th Oct 2013 at 10:37.