Contracts
The company I work for required a 2 year training contract to be signed prior to attending every initial. These are for the full cost of the initial (20k-50k) and are prorated (work 1 year, only pay back half the cost). We had a pilot leave about 2 years ago that didn't think the contracts were too viable and the company proved him wrong. Some of our pilots think about theirs daily and consider them a huge downside and others don't mind them at all.