Originally Posted by
PoppaJo
Cadetships are super competitive and financially draining and
You're right about being super competitive, they only take the top fraction of applicants, but you'll have zero chance of you never apply for one.
As far as financially draining? They do cost a percentage more than a standard CPL but that might be covered by HECS. Overall you'll make more within over the course of a career (in fact within a few years I'd say) due to higher seniority and the ability to move onto larger aircraft and higher pay quicker.
Originally Posted by
PoppaJo
not highly regarded on this forum going off discussion in the other forum.
Luckily the combined weight of most of Australia's airlines that employ cadets overrule some anonymous posters on an internet forum. The fact is most airlines have current or past cadet programs, employ cadets and will continue to do so in the future. Moaning that they exist to take jobs that GA pilots are supposedly entitled to isn't going to make them go away.