Would you pay for a type rating?
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Would you pay for a type rating?
A fair question but a better one is, 'would you pay £90,000 for integrated flight training when you could spend £45,000 for a modular course and obtain the same licence?'
I cannot understand why many regard expensive integrated training as perfectly acceptable but criticise those who then buy a type rating. It is not good enough to excuse the rip off FTOs by pointing to free type ratings of the past as some kind of counterbalance.
Ad please don't pretend that it matters which training route you choose. It should not. If you have the aptitude to be an airline pilot and you have the luck to get a job, you will get there in the end. When you have 5000 hrs in your logbook, or even 1500, it will not matter one iota where you trained.
So this obsession with deriding those who paid for a type rating ought to be equally aimed at those who paid for expensive integrated courses, and all vitriol and ironic laughter reserved for those who gambled on going integrated only to find themselves in a recession with no option but to join a loco after paying £22k for a rating.
A fair question but a better one is, 'would you pay £90,000 for integrated flight training when you could spend £45,000 for a modular course and obtain the same licence?'
I cannot understand why many regard expensive integrated training as perfectly acceptable but criticise those who then buy a type rating. It is not good enough to excuse the rip off FTOs by pointing to free type ratings of the past as some kind of counterbalance.
Ad please don't pretend that it matters which training route you choose. It should not. If you have the aptitude to be an airline pilot and you have the luck to get a job, you will get there in the end. When you have 5000 hrs in your logbook, or even 1500, it will not matter one iota where you trained.
So this obsession with deriding those who paid for a type rating ought to be equally aimed at those who paid for expensive integrated courses, and all vitriol and ironic laughter reserved for those who gambled on going integrated only to find themselves in a recession with no option but to join a loco after paying £22k for a rating.
