Thanks for your honest replies guys, I really do appreciate it.
But your replies effectively confirm what I've read elsewhere: that ATPL programmes offered by various schools around the country are failing to deliver pilots who have the necessary skills, and the MPL has failed to rectify this in part because it's not being implemented properly by flying schools offering the MPL.
The professional flying schools are running a sausage system in any case, and any monkey can into the right seat as long as they have enough money to throw at it.
That's the impression I'm getting, is it inaccurate in any way?
Innocent question, but if the ATPL programmes offered by many schools are producing pilots with a serious 'skill deficit', why were changes not made decades ago?
Serious question, but other than the difficulty finding a job when you have the bit of paper saying you can fly, the impression I'm getting is that there isn't a course worth applying for (at least with the so called 'big name' flying schools)?
Realistically where does all of this leave ambitious hopefuls like me?
