Originally Posted by SeldomFixit

Colour it how you will but the glory days are gone - Icadets are the future until the wheel turns back to a time of hard won experience that translates into a genuine Command candidate. Most of the " A " scale P1's I know, I'd fly through the eye of a needle, in a hurricane with. Of course "A" scale had to end - it was simply unsustainable however - so many CX drivers who SHOULD be on "A" scale, never will be. I am so glad I enjoyed the best of it because the future is going to dim the lights on a standard that will never be repeated.

Originally Posted by Yeager

For such a young candidate I just wish he would have had the opportunity to go and work for at REAL airline - as opposed to the wanky, wanky Cathay Pathetic one - now the guy will never know what a real airline is like.. Too bloody bad - but if he's smart enough he'll take the P2 time, get his P1 rating, call sick, sick and sick and get his wheels going somewhere decent - and while doing that as a sandwich officer - call sick, go travel and enjoy HK as much as possible meanwhile. Oh yeah baby.. Go use and abuse!