Training (or lack of) in Malaga
Originally Posted by
Aaron_07
Planning to apply in a few weeks, whats the updates with delays? Talked with a brussels student who said CAE have started the Malaga thing. Is it helping?
Just adding this to this thread, from another MPL thread I posted it in:
Hi, I hate to bring you bad news, but I am on the first course who were sent out to Malaga mid-May this year. It is now August 10th and I have only just been scheduled my first two flights this coming week. We were told by both CAE and the easy liaison team that the first class would be prioritised, as it’s been so long since we finished groundschool (our last exam was 14th December 2023!). CAE have now turned around and told us that we will be sharing instructors equally with the other three classes out here, and have no sort of enhanced training plan in place to get us back on course for our sim phase in Milan, which was scheduled to start w/c 11th November. We have a class who finished groundschool 2 months ago scheduled to be only 4-6 weeks behind us, starting this coming Monday. With the current instructor number (4 including the CFI, so basically 3) and the projected progress of certification, there will be 7 instructors ready, to share between 74 cadets, come September, which is simply not feasible. These numbers currently allow for an absolute maximum of barely 2 flights each, per week. We fear that with no adjusted contingency training plan, we will be out in Malaga for the best part of a year, with the summer easyJet induction looking, more likely by the week, to be out of our grasp. Pretty much every cadet out here is filled with complete uncertainty and a lot of frustration and I myself and quite a few cadets are now seriously considering leaving and picking up ATPL training elsewhere. I will update you as things progress, but as it currently stands I see the setup of the Malaga base as a complete and utter failure and the treatment of the cadets from CAEs side has been absolutely horrendous. I will of course update on any progression, but from cancelled meetings with no communication, to blatant lies about what to expect, I have run out of words for how I can explain this situation.