[BobDDuck]

I guess my question (and I've posed this before) is WHY do you feel you need the extra training. You seem to have this idea that ground school is just a guy standing in front of the room looking for somebody to wash out and a line of alternates standing at the door waiting to take their place. It ain't like that. Yes, it is a lot of information at once. The drinking from the fire hose is an apt description. However, if you don't feel like you can make it (with out JetU/ATP/RAA/CAE prep) then you may want to consider a different career. What are you going to do when it comes time to upgrade? JetU doesn't offer a captain's class. What are you going to do when you switch equipment types? The nature of this job is that you need to be able to assimilate information very quickly. There seems to be a lot of people who want to "lighten their work load" during initial so a) they don't wash out and b) it's not so hard. Paying 6K just to make life easier in initial isn't going to help down the road when you have to do the same thing over again. Either you can do it or you can't. I would hazard a guess that you (and most other people) can, but the places that had the same slick advertising talking about how seniority is everything are now using that advertising to terrify newbies into thinking that ground school is a scary thing and if you don't get the extra prep you will fail and never work for an airline again. That my friend is a bunch of BS.