Scroggs, good points!
WWW, also good questions!
What would happen if BAE fails to sell? Having done some research, it seems fairly likely that it will close. But what will this do for the poor students who are still there waiting to complete their course? What will happen to the dwindering motivation of BAE staff and instructors faced with imminent job loss? Certainly IT WILL NOT do anything positive towards quality of training.
Also what about the students that complete their training with BAE? BAE partly sells the course on graduates being in employment within 6 months with the help of BAE management, and their airline contacts. Are these students going to be left to fend for themselves in the current market. After all I agree with WWW in another of his recent posts, whereby he explains that airlines prefer graduates from the approved course to the modular course, simply because it is easy for airlines to get in touch with the approved school for a training reference.But what happens when their is no-one at BAE to answer the phones?
Other interesting RUMOURS are that the CAA is becoming more reluctant to renew FTO approval to a non UK residing FTOs. After all under JAR, BAE should really operate under their Spanish DGAC approval (which they currently have). However, the Spanish approval is not used soley because BAE have no Spanish DGAC approved examiners on site. Therefore BAE continue to use expensive CAA examiners from the UK.
With regard to the sale of BAE, personally I have doubts. BAE is a global company, and if they cannot make a profit in over 6 years in delivering flight training, nor financially afford to keep the Civil Flight Training schools, then who can? Particularly in Jerez, where I am told a vast number of flying days are lost to excessively high temperatures in the summer, the levante SE crosswind, ATC restrictions and generally poor management.
Anyone out there know any interested parties in purchasing BAE?
In the mean time, you can still join the BAE Systems Rowing Team. Vacancies for 6 (management) blokes steering, and 1 (instructor) bloke rowing..............Yes it does go around in circles all day!
