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Correct me if I'm wrong but we all pay our dues in one form or another. Jobs for a low time pilot are far and few between. Hopefully this will lead to something better. Would you spend .50 to make a dollar? It's not like I'm taking any jobs away from the CFI's or the airlines.
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Wow, do I even want to start on the PFT argument?? Not really, but lets just say that paying someone to let me work for them is not my idea of "paying your dues". My time is more valuable than that. Oops, I guess I did get started on the PFT argument.
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So just how far do you want to take that argument? Who paid you for your PPL, CSEL, MEL, Inst, CFI, CFII, MEI,.....? I'm not sure all the guys at the academies (or the FBO's for that matter) that are paying to get all their ratings, just so they can spend the next couple years working for those same academies (or FBO) to get hours and "pay their dues" would really agree with your take on the situation, eh?
Don't take it personally, it's just that there are so many grey areas when you are talking about "PFT", that it can be really difficult to draw the line. In an ideal world we would interview with our prospective employer (major airline, fractional operator, whomever), and they would hire you and then pay for *all* of your training from zero time on up. Ain't going to happen, though, (exception: military!) so we have to keep finding the compromises that work for each of us, hopefully without hurting the piloting profession along the way.