Crash Barrier,
I think you nicely illustrate the genre of the emotional and irrational poster!
None of the moderators here present advertise or recommend any particular course provider. We do, at times, try and explain the idiosyncracies of the system when people are lost in its complexity, and we most certainly point out the facts of commercial life with which you must deal if you want to become an airline pilot in Europe.
I neither recommended Oxford's new course, nor did I present it as the only way to progress to an airline job. In fact, I thought I quite neatly showed that Oxford's course is just one of many ways to get there, and that the small number of people who do enrol on it will not significantly affect the overall market. I did, however, attempt to explain the rational behind the course, as I saw it.
You can wish all you like that commercial licence training were cheaper and easier. It isn't, and will not be so. You can also wish that all those who'd like to be an airline pilot should succeed. They won't. You might prefer it if I flannelled you all with a message that it'll all be alright, you'll all make it, and it'll only cost you £15 with your Sainsbury's Reward card. I won't.
I, and WWW, and the others when they visit, are here to keep your ramblings on the reasonably straight and narrow, and prevent you getting lost in the dream world which some of you would apparently like to inhabit!
It's not for us to reinforce your preconceptions or dreams, but to tell you how it really is. I'm sorry you can't take that, but those who can are more likely to be better prepared for what actually lies ahead.
Rob747, looks like you're getting there!
