Flooding the market. ATR, A320 engineers.
Training organisations, (CASA 147), are absolutely flooding the market with poorly trained engineers, ATR and A320 courses are being run back to back with literally hundreds of guys emerging with type ratings following courses running for as little as 4 weeks for ATR, ALL variants, B1 and B2,4 WEEKS!, followed by a couple of weeks on POC, they are type rated. How can it be possible to be adequately qualified when you could conceivably have never set foot on that A/C type, yet hold a rating.
The A320 courses are no better, CASA is not helping the industry by sanctioning this, it is a sad state when the type ratings and qualifications in this country are now so undervalued, the courses are attendance only, and are basically being given away to anyone who has $10K to hand over.