Its because High doesn't mean very much.
Basically Malgus advertise for young people interested in becoming airline pilots.
They then marshal them up and administer some third party aptitude tests of some value and charge them for it.
From this they will 'select' some people for training and pack them off to a third party training provider - Jerez in the past and Cranfield now.
This third party training is seemingly (nobody knows) funded by the large numbers of people who paid for the third party aptitude testing and selection processes.
The lucky people selected sign a contract to Malgus to repay all the training fees in the future with a number of clauses regards how and when.
Malgus is run by someone called Malcolm Clark who is now an easyJet First Officer having been the same in Aer Lingus.
When the company first appeared some 2 - 3 years ago they did not manage their image on PPRuNe. Over the years there have been scams whereby ads were placed in flying magazines offering full training sponsorship.
All you had to do was send a cheque to a PO Box to cover 'aptitude selection testing'. This turned out to be something akin to 200 people in a cheap hotel conference room doing a GCSE maths paper against a clock...
There was no sponsorship and no training and no aptitude testing. Just a lot of cheques.
Malgus made the error of offering a genuine product that appeared to be a variation on the scams seen before.
Hence they got a slating on PPRuNe.
Its all above board and I have kept a discreet eye on the people who were selected and who have gone through Jerez. They both seem genuine and neither has the surname Clark. So its no scam.
As long as people realise that this company is not a charity, that the fees for testing also support the funding (possibly) and that all training funding has to be repaid - then caveat emptor.
Wannabes are often young, often enthusiastic and often naive. Flight training is a veritable pool of sharks and as we are talking serious life choices and serious amounts of money I make no apology for being extremely cynical in these matters.
Good luck to one and all,
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