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Old 27th Sep 2019, 20:08
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Originally Posted by B61
The rumour is that Oxford will close, so maybe that is the reason for there being no course details ?

The sim centre at Oxford closed suddenly and was moved to Gatwick in January, and the groundschool side seems to be gradually being run down (fewer courses, ground instructors leaving etc). They have spent some effort building up the Madrid site for groundschool, utilising exciting CAE premises there, so I would guess that the same model would apply with Gatwick. My guess is that MPL students would go there and European students to Madrid and Brussels.

The small footprint of buildings they have left is in such a poor state rumour is that the airport want to demolish and build a business aviation centre, although they presumably would have to make alternative arrangements for a control tower.

there is also the issue of flying - if the UK is booted out of EASA then Arizona is finished. Only the CAA accepted EASA training in a non EASA stated so they would have to relocate - maybe Madrid ?

There would be no loss of Oxford name since the whole Kidlington site had all references to Oxford removed 18 months ago and replaced with CAE logo.

As was mentioned above, all the corporates rSwipes now dominate the places. They don't come cheap and that is what you are paying for if you dumb enough to fall for some very tired marketing. It's just amazing that they still think the name means people will wait for them to get their (extremely disorganised ) rear end into gear.
Damn, I didn't know about this rumour. I'm looking to apply very shortly, and I was aiming for Oxford as that's most convenient being a UK resident etc. Perhaps I should look into Madrid and Brussels more.

It also does sound strange how they're being reluctant to give out 2020 start dates; I have heard that there is quite a backlog at the moment especially with the easy MPL, so they may be trying to get through that first.

Annoying though, as I could very much do without all this uncertainty when i'm about to apply!!
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