Job or linetraining with A320 typerating and 350 hours??
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Excellent point Portsharbourflyer, in many ways the bottom line has never been so attractive, the old self-improver route must have cost fortune in time and money.
Just a quick question, when did SSFIRs become the norm without any guarantee of a job offer?
Just a quick question, when did SSFIRs become the norm without any guarantee of a job offer?
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There has never been a guarantee of anything in life, except that we are all going to die. and any organisation that 'guarantees' a job, particularly in such a volatile industry as aviation, is merely using it as a marketing expression to sell the product.
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You'r an idiot so the only advice I will give is go for it but dont go with the cheapest you can find as airlines will see that as inferior training. You need to find the bigget waste of money and go for that one, airlines appreciate that and it WILL get you a job. 
You are doing this industry so much good, well done if you go ahead with it. Loads of jobs about at the moment and not many people with type ratings so if you have 100 hours paid line training your in for sure. Good Luck 
You are doing this industry so much good, well done if you go ahead with it. Loads of jobs about at the moment and not many people with type ratings so if you have 100 hours paid line training your in for sure. Good Luck
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Loads of jobs about at the moment and not many people with type ratings so if you have 100 hours paid line training your in for sure.
Ladies and Gentlemen... the fact is that in the present climate there are plenty of people with experience who are type rated and the pool of available jobs is getting smaller.
Paying for a type rating always carries a risk and that risk is that after you pay for your training, there is no job or you don't get through the training.
At present that risk is as big as it has ever been!
Self sponsored type ratings can work out when the market is good but you will be more of a tangible asset to an airline that pays for your rating regardless of aircraft type. Lets imagine, you have two people that go through a course and one pays and the other is funded by the airline and suddenly the airline needs to make cutbacks - guess who will go first assuming they both performed at the same standard? Yep.... the chap who paid for their own course.
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Hi Guys,
Qualified since last December with a frozen ATPL. Spent months applying for work and nothing. Decided to do a TR in OAA on the A320 in September and after applying everywhere for work I finally got my chance two weeks ago in Asia. So, hang in guys! The self sponsored tr route worked for me. And can I also say that I am joined here by several other low houred pilots..
Good luck
Qualified since last December with a frozen ATPL. Spent months applying for work and nothing. Decided to do a TR in OAA on the A320 in September and after applying everywhere for work I finally got my chance two weeks ago in Asia. So, hang in guys! The self sponsored tr route worked for me. And can I also say that I am joined here by several other low houred pilots..
Good luck
