Originally Posted by
Sir Niall Dementia
What a monumentally arrogant response. If you don't want to learn the trade spare us your company. The difference between PPL and ATPL is best described as GCSE to 2nd year degree.
So will you rely on the P1 knowing the de-code, or are you so great you'll be straight to LHS and the P2 can do it?
After 30 years with a professional license a stack of hours and now sitting in the CP's chair you come over as the worst type of new license holder I meet weekly.
If you don't know the ATPL basics when you walk through the door you will fail. Bye bye to the training costs. No-one will support or help you. A PPL may get away with what you suggest, a pro can't. You want to be a pro, then get with the pro programme. Learn what you have to, be prepared to learn a f###ing sight more, stop learning, stop working. A fail on your training record will stick like s##t to a blanket. It'll follow you everywhere. It's a smaller world than you think. I originally thought you wanted to just complete ppl so apologise for my earlier answer. You want to be a big jet pilot, grow up and think like one.
I treat a flight in my PA22 as seriously as a working day flight, most pros do. We've seen many of the snags and catches most ppl's will never see. I you want to go off half cocked you'll find a lot of those snags waiting to get you.
This is the Professional Pilots' Rumour Network. The clue is in Professional Pilots. Be one or just F### Off!
SND
Okay. Berating and shouting duly noted. I shall scuttle myself off and think about what I have done. My apologies, I'm just trying to ascertain exactly what is needed for me to progress at this stage. Many people have told me that ATPL is no harder than an A Level. So someone is wrong in their estimation. No offence meant nor detraction from your profession. The things mentioned such as potential life saving information should never be skimped on, it is this kind of organising I would appreciate from the CAA as oppose to simply reading 2100 pages with the view of "Learn this". Thanks for the response.