Another PFT.....WTF!!!

[bailout]

Doesnt look like PFT to me. Unless you get hired first and go to Aeroservice for the training.

PFT is when the company you get HIRED with makes you PAY FOR the TRAINING. Whatever happens BEFORE you get HIRED is NOT PFT.

In this case, it looks like you are BUYING an interview.

 

[SDCFI]

bailout beat me to it, not PFT but pay for interview, which is still pretty shady. Their website doesn't show that they provide 1900 and Saab specific training, so you're not even getting a leg up as far as learning the aircraft you'll be flying. You're just paying 4 grand for what will probably amount to reading The Turbine Pilot's Flight Manual. Back when Colgan was PFT a friend of mine (not a good one) shelled out $6000 at RAA I think to get an interview, AND THEN gave Colgan $18,000 to be a Saab F/O. How's that for buying a job? Someone needs to take these guys out behind the dumpster and give 'em a good beating.

 

[jparks]

So now you have to pay for the training for the interview then you can shell out more money for the aircraft training.

 

[IanSaw]

I can't believe someone just tried to differentiate paying for an interview and paying for training. Give me a break.

 

[jparks]

Thats what I am saying. What a joke! Anyone buying a job should be drug out into the street and shot. This jerks my

 

[bailout]

>>I can't believe someone just tried to differentiate paying for an interview and paying for training.<<

tried?? Its black and white. Is all the money you spent on your own flight training considered PFT? Dont think so.. According to you it is. This is the same thing. Its simply flight training. Im not saying I agree with it, but it is what it is.

 

[jparks]

So, You are going to pay another $4000 after you have already paid $40000 for you flight training to get an INTERVIEW????? Think logical!

 

[I.P. Freley]

Plenty of people are paying $6k+ to get a type rating in a 737 to get an interview at a certain Major... At least in THIS program, you KNOW you're going to get the interview for your $4k.

 

[jparks]

You don't need the type for the interview, come on keep up with the industry.

see link
http://www.southwest.com/careers/pilots.html

 

[I.P. Freley]

And you don't "need" any more than 1000PIC turbine, either... But it sure helps you get the interview, doesn't it? Come on, keep up with reality.

You know what I meant... If you don't have the type, you're not likely to get an interview, and if you DO get an interview and get a job offer, it's conditional on your procuring one of those type ratings before you plop your butt in ground school.