ABSTRACT
Would-be airline pilots within Australia have traditionally had few RPT carriers to aim for during their flight training. Although Ansett, Australian and Qantas have run cadetship schemes at some point in their history, they have not been the main source of pilots. Australian, for example, only had two cadet intakes, which were in the late 1960's, although Qantas did run a quite extensive cadetship program with 14 courses commencing between 1963 and 1970. (Stead, 1995)
As Such, the main route to the airlines is through general aviation or the military. Baker (1988) estimated the traditional source of Australian Airlines pilots to be approximately 60% from the military, 35% from the armed forces and 5% from other airlines.
