FYI:
3 are in their IOE stage in 5J
8 are in their OBS stage in 5J
11 finished their BOM and waiting for the 12 TAGS with 5J
20++ finished their a320 checkride already with clark av. Awaiting for 5J to absorb them. (so the ball is already with 5Js court, not clark av)
simply means... thats atleast 41 cadets finished with Clark Av already.
41 cadets in 2 and a half years? thats fairly average considering its a new program, a new school, newly established CAAP.
These, at face value, look like some positive move forward for the 5J sponsored and partly sponsored cadets. Congrats and good luck to them!!!
Nevertheless, we need to clarify something here. The 12 TAGS are part of the MPL program and, although 5J will provide the a/c to do them, I doubt that the 11 cadets have been issued with their MPL licences.
The same applies to those 20++ cadets. No TAGS = No licence.
So, in fact only 11 cadets have graduated from CIA until now.
But, there again, I could be wrong....
On another tack, the info provided only applies to the 5J linked cadets and that leaves us with the self-sponsored group for whom 5J will not provide a/c for the 12 TAGS. Any ideas to resolve this issue soon?
Just to finish for today. The commentator LOLO had two posts that disappeared from the thread.
In those posts he was singing the virtues of CIA and how everything is running to schedule, and how CAAP and ICAO are actually working to resolve the real mess while mentioning things such as the Stirling pilots that lost their jobs because of the crisis, and the chinese MPLrs in Australia time to complete the course and the second(????) Airbus factory in China and the KAL cadets, etc. etc....
Honestly, while these details might make some interesting conversation, what does all that have to do with the CIA cadets graduation and insertion in the job market?
NOTHING!!!! Except that it shows some desperate attempt, by someone obviously not experienced in aviation matters, to white wash a bad situation.
And this is evidenced by the FACT that CAAP and ICAO had to step-in to avoid very serious consequences caused by the malpractices of a private business. CAAP and ICAO should not be involved because they are the lawmaker and the regulator authority. But since they are involved, lets hope that we can see light at the end of the tunnel soon.
After all, CIA has its own management to take care of business. Or not?