Originally Posted by
Av8tr1
Sigh.....I appreciate the suggestions but clearly we are having a communication issue here. I have already trained as an EMT, I would have to go back for my certification test, which is a couple of hundred at the most. I spent years doing volunteer work in search and rescue and don't want to do that anymore. I am also already a dive master and volunteer diver for a couple of nature focused non profits. So no value in me going back to do either of those.
I am current so there is no currency issue. I am eventually going to end up at a major where I will fly either a Boeing or a Airbus. I have money that I can only use for specific purposes. One of those purposes is a new type rating. I could go for a Gulf Stream or some other biz jet but the likelihood of me using it is pretty low. The likelihood of me using a large passenger jet is pretty high. And I wouldn't have the stress of a employment related training event. So again a type rating seems to make the most sense. Otherwise I can let the time limit lapse and loose the remaining amount available.
Make sense?
Sure, makes sense.
But AGAIN, if you're military trained, and current, getting the type really isn't doing you any good, nor making you any more marketable. The airline is going to train you to fly the plane they WANT YOU TO FLY THE PLANE.
Buying it on your own subjects you to more of a failure (pink slip) than (insert airline's program here), whether AQP or not.
Is that communication getting through?
If it's all you can spend it on, then do it, it's YOUR (tax payer's) MONEY.