I have signed this petition, as a TRE I have had the chance to see the products from a number of these schemes, they have worked hard; but some have no concept of what was required of a line pilot. This is my main objection to these schemes, at some of the airlines no effective training takes place beyond the TR, they sit in a seat for 500 hours and are still not an effective F.O. at the end; yet I have flown with properly trained F.O.s with less than 100 hours on type who were. The properly trained guys and girls will continue to develop and build knowledge, the products of the substandard training regimes will continue to be ballast, struggling to overcome the disadvantage they were put in by going P2F in a system where they flew but were not trained.
Not all schemes are the same and some do provide proper training, however it is my opinion that the industry would be a better place without them.