Pay for training
First and for most, I never did it and for the most part I don't agree with it. However, there are some real good things about it. Most airlines want anywhere from 100 to 300 hours in a twin. How to get that time? You can rent or spilt time in a twin doing touch-and-go's, or fly a Beach 99 or 1900 getting real weather and real systems for about the same price. You can learn some CRM and start to learn how to talk and deal with ATC. Fly STARS SID's and APP's. I've heard all the sayings aginst it, "your taking a job away from another pilot" or " you need to pay your do's" For me, I never went above 13,000 feet and I hardly have any IMC time. Those things wich I listed above would have been great to learn while building time. There just seems to be alot of good things about a PFT jig. Even without all that IFR stuff, I still got a 121 job.
I hope you can see my point...............