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Old 1st Apr 2015, 19:53
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Sorry to hear ORICHETTI that all that hard work and experience is not being appreciated by the hypocritical "safety first" industry.

Why do newbies go down the p2f route? To avoid situations like this, that's why!
..and even that is no guarantee that they will not be replaced by the next batch of P2F candidates.

Plenty of 737/A320 pilots out there with 500 hours on type but who can't find much work.

Let's face it, as people above also said: the 'market' is completely screwed up and airlines prefer young, naive, inexperienced pilots, heavily into student debt from P4T and P2F, who will automatically ask "how high?" when crew control shouts "JUMP!"

These new FO's are no longer children of the magenta line, they are robots of the magenta line and anyone with even half a brain is quickly getting outsourced, or runs into a brick wall trying to move to a jet job.

Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock....

The ONLY strategy is: talk to people wanting to become a pilot and warn them NOT to dive into a huge pool of debt that they most likely will never be able to pay off with the ever decreasing salaries and collective labour agreements. Stick to the cadet schemes and if that does not work out, tough luck, forget a job as a pilot in this lifetime.
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