Hi,
My first post on here, so please be kind
I've been thinking for a while about pursuing my childhood ambition of becoming a professional pilot.
I would prefer to fly business jets rather than airline work.
I've been doing a lot of research about pilot training in general (including reading threads on pprune) as well as research on what's offered by various schools.
I may have got the wrong end of the stick here, but I'm sad to say the picture that has been painted by the various sources I have consulted isn't a pretty one.
Firstly, other than price, I'm not entirely sure what the difference is between the likes of OAA and CTC compared with BCFT, Stapleford and others.
Is there any meaningful difference, or do some schools simply have better marketing departments than others...?
Secondly, and I do not profess to have the experience to pass judgement on this, but what flying schools themselves are saying about the MPL seems to be totally different to what others are saying!
The MPL seems is being hailed as a revolution by flying schools offering the license, but as far as I understand serious concerns are being raised?
What's the truth?
While doing some research on MPL programmes, I came across articles such as the flightglobal article on "airline pilot training revolution needed" (search it on google).
Having read articles such as the one mentioned above, am I right in thinking that there a serious problem with the ATPL, which the MPL license has failed to rectify?
It talks about pilots not being taught the skills they need during training.
Is the quality of training a serious problem that other users of this forum recognise? There seems to be quite a lot written about it online!
I wanted to find some information about becoming a pilot, but I was surprised by just how opaque the industry and some of the flying schools can be.
Would somebody care to give me a (preferably brief!) overview of what's going on with professional pilot training?
Thank you.