B737-200 or ATR??
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Jesus H Christ ...
If anyone who has read those emails still wishes to send their money, then you bloody deserve to lose it all.
Have any of you flown into Afghanistan? Or Sri Lanka? Or "East Africa"? I have, all three, and let me tell you it's scarey enough doing it with a respectable airline operator in a brand new A330 with all the situational awareness tools at your disposal. With some cowboy contract outfit, probably with a third world forged-licence idiot in the LHS, in a barely flyable illegally maintained clapped out 737-200, doesn't bear thinking about.
Even if there was a job waiting on the end of that email (which there isn't) ... and even if you were daft enough to want to spend $45K on a 737-200 rating (which is the daftest thing I've ever heard of) ... and even if you were super duper daft enough to want to get paid $1500 a month to fly in and out of those places (by way of comparison, some of my friends who fly for a South African cargo operator in and out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Peshawar etc earn over $US20,000 a month as danger money, and they have been shot at with RPG's and small arms fire on approach on numerous occasions) ...
... even after all those things, you would have a life expectancy measured in months rather than years and you would be living in a sh!t hole the likes of which you cannot even begin to imagine if you have never ventured outside the circuit pattern in a Seneca in Blighty before.
... and even if you miraculously survived the first couple of years and actually learned enough to survive in that environment, you would STILL be unemployable back in the civilized world, because the rating is worthless and the operators concerned are a joke.
Good luck
If anyone who has read those emails still wishes to send their money, then you bloody deserve to lose it all.
Have any of you flown into Afghanistan? Or Sri Lanka? Or "East Africa"? I have, all three, and let me tell you it's scarey enough doing it with a respectable airline operator in a brand new A330 with all the situational awareness tools at your disposal. With some cowboy contract outfit, probably with a third world forged-licence idiot in the LHS, in a barely flyable illegally maintained clapped out 737-200, doesn't bear thinking about.
Even if there was a job waiting on the end of that email (which there isn't) ... and even if you were daft enough to want to spend $45K on a 737-200 rating (which is the daftest thing I've ever heard of) ... and even if you were super duper daft enough to want to get paid $1500 a month to fly in and out of those places (by way of comparison, some of my friends who fly for a South African cargo operator in and out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Peshawar etc earn over $US20,000 a month as danger money, and they have been shot at with RPG's and small arms fire on approach on numerous occasions) ...
... even after all those things, you would have a life expectancy measured in months rather than years and you would be living in a sh!t hole the likes of which you cannot even begin to imagine if you have never ventured outside the circuit pattern in a Seneca in Blighty before.
... and even if you miraculously survived the first couple of years and actually learned enough to survive in that environment, you would STILL be unemployable back in the civilized world, because the rating is worthless and the operators concerned are a joke.
Good luck
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@sevenstrokeroll. My frnd has already paid for the 737 first officer program in air linkers. I am also planning to join. I read your comments about this company. You said u are going to do research abt this company. Do you recommend this company. Is this true or fake?
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Hi, guys
So, I also got an offer from this company. $40k is terribly expensive for a B737 classic type rating. So, I asked the guy from the organization about the cost, and he replied that it included not only a cost for a type rating, but also costs for a base training and a line training, insurance and so on so forth. If this is true, $40k sounds about right.
But I still doubt about this company as a whole. Every time when I asked the guy about a training in detail, it seemed that he intentionally did not give me answers. Even more, he gave me a couple of references so I could contact them to get further information regarding the training, none of them knew much about the training since they had not really started their training yet. I do not understand why the guy gave me references who even has not started their training yet... Every time when I receive emails from these people, my doubt to this company gets stronger and stronger. Sigh...
Should I be the one to explore this full of doubt organization? What do you guys think?
So, I also got an offer from this company. $40k is terribly expensive for a B737 classic type rating. So, I asked the guy from the organization about the cost, and he replied that it included not only a cost for a type rating, but also costs for a base training and a line training, insurance and so on so forth. If this is true, $40k sounds about right.
But I still doubt about this company as a whole. Every time when I asked the guy about a training in detail, it seemed that he intentionally did not give me answers. Even more, he gave me a couple of references so I could contact them to get further information regarding the training, none of them knew much about the training since they had not really started their training yet. I do not understand why the guy gave me references who even has not started their training yet... Every time when I receive emails from these people, my doubt to this company gets stronger and stronger. Sigh...
Should I be the one to explore this full of doubt organization? What do you guys think?
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Good grief! This thread is back from the dead and still we have new idiots who read the offer, then read this thread and still thinks it:
So aircraft insurance is now a personal expense for the pilot is it? Perhaps they could bump the cost of the rating up to a couple of million because you've got to take into account fuel and spare parts. Still, it sounds about right. Sometimes I despair.
Incidentally Tailwind, a 737-200 is not a 737 Classic (hence my reference to Jurassic in my earlier post). It is not a common type rating with the 737 300 to 900 and is frankly worthless as there are virtually no 200s operating in the civilized world. If you want to blow 45k to lock your career options into flying an obsolete jet in 3rd world
for blacklisted carriers with no job security and still be 9 grand worse off than if you just chilled out on a beach and did nothing for the next two years, then crack on. Sounds great.
sounds about right
Incidentally Tailwind, a 737-200 is not a 737 Classic (hence my reference to Jurassic in my earlier post). It is not a common type rating with the 737 300 to 900 and is frankly worthless as there are virtually no 200s operating in the civilized world. If you want to blow 45k to lock your career options into flying an obsolete jet in 3rd world
for blacklisted carriers with no job security and still be 9 grand worse off than if you just chilled out on a beach and did nothing for the next two years, then crack on. Sounds great.
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