Why would someone want an ATPL? What about those whose ambitions extend to working in the real world?
Like, anywhere except Australia......
We have gone full circle back to the bad old fifties and sixties, when it was impossible to hold a First Class ATPL (or whatever they called it) unless you were anointed Captain with one of the three protected airlines that existed then. Everyone else who could pass the very same exams got a useless thing called a Senior Commercial which was hard to trade up elsewhere. The Poms, for example, made you do all their poxy exams and flight tests all over again, but at least you could do the flight test in a light twin.
My advice is don't piss 40 grand up against the wall with a Citation - do it in an A320 simulator as part of the type rating and at least make yourself employable. Or go to NZ and do it in a King Air. But be careful with that - the TTMRA only works for an initial licence swap from one jurisdiction to the other, not necessarily adding qualifications to an existing Australian licence. So sort that out with CASA first.
Last edited by Mach E Avelli; 27th Nov 2014 at 08:05.