The standard cadet scare campaign runs like this;
- There is no guarantee of employment - 90% plus are employed
- You will not get an ATPL - no command hours - they are approved for all sorts of ICUS regimes , all the Qantas cadets from 70s now 380/747 captains
- The big bad company is making money from you - not true just weren't happy with the calibre of Direct Entry Pilots - the program costs them money with increased training , approvals , supervision for a couple of years
- The big bad flying school is making money from you- not true Oxford Melb not making much , compare the $84K for CPL/IR in Melb to the costs they charge the Brits - $89 K GBPounds.
- There will be a 1500 hour limit bought in. USA only country in developed world to bring this in, already large exemptions given to certain groups, pretty much a "thought bubble" reaction to one accident. Cadet safety proven by likes of BA/Luftansa/KLM/SIA/Cathay over the last 50 years and of course our own world champions of Aviation Safety - qantas. How many aircraft "saves" have we had by our very own heroic Qantas Pilots who started as cadets. American 1500 hour rule Not even on the agenda
One more cadet is one less place for a direct entry, already 90 cadets checked flying A320 in Jetstar Oz , over 100 in training pipeline.
200 less places for the GA Astronauts , who did us so proud on the Flight Decks of Tiger, and perhaps "one or two" little incidents at Virgin.
So if catching grabs , and living in fly infested sh*tholes full of misfits and derros, in what is largely the wasteland of outback Australia, and being in poverty for ten years isn't what you had in mind for your future.
From leaving year 12 to flying an A320 full of paying passengers, you can be doing this 20 months from school.
Go direct to the Jet - Go Cadet
And please have some manners about , be humble , send your unemployed friends who went the GA path a food parcel every six months. And don't tell them about your six week holiday to Europe this year, where you will be flying business class, and visiting the October Fest.
Go direct to the Jet - Go Cadet