Thank you Foyl & Trashie for your excellent posts...
1/ Legal pitfalls, so what has our society come to. Just imagine the following,
You are a Doctor who has just come on a bad accident, the victim lying on the road in the middle of the traffic is bleeding to death. Your lawyer sitting in your car beside you says "don't what ever you do stop and help, or he will sue you for all you have". So the husband, breadwinner and father of 5 little kids dies, and 6 lives are wrecked as a result.
So what do I learn from this as a specialist Mentor? Make sure to identify the one in 10 who have the right attitude first and then only work with them. The other 9 who are happy with General Aviation mediocrity (as the airlines call it) can go their own way.
(The difference in the safety record between GA and Airlines speaks for itself)
2/ Personal representative, probably not a good term, adviser on how to specifically prepare for an airline career is probably better. (although the same principles would certainly make a safer Private Pilot).
This is in fact a little different to the excellent objectives of AOPA, ASFA, & AWPA.
No doubt we each have our own strenghts and weaknesses and should be able to work well together as a team. No doubt they have the good theory, where as mine is in the hard school of personal experience.
I have concentrated on the excellent feedback from both Senior Airlines personel and the many pilots that both succeeded and failed over my lifetime of flying experience.
Just remember the 3 Cs of leadership really applies here,
1/ Commitment,
2/ Cognizance ( knowing all you should know) and
3/ Competence, which flows from the other 2.
Finally "a well defined objective directs our efforts like a bullet is directed from a gun'', (be it long or short term).
IN other words"The more precicely we define our objectives the better the chance of succeeding.
You always start from your furtherest objective and work backward
So if you can recognise a need in your prospect client and can supply that need, he is better off and so are you.