CAE MPL Cadets in Granada - Ask Us Anything

[Suffering_Cadet]

Before we begin:

• Everything said here is opinion, based on personal experiences from being here.
• There may be certain questions we can't answer. We cannot disclose certain operational/personal information, and have to abide by specified professional standards.
• We can only speak about experiences with CAE and Aerodynamics.
• We are happy to answer questions on living in Granada and day to day living.
• We will do out best to make it clear what is based on information received directly from CAE or AD, and what is based on information from other cadet's experience or unconfirmed.

A few basic points to begin:

• Our class has been here since October 2025
• We are very aware that CAE are actively reading and monitoring these posts.
• There are cadets from 2 different airlines here. All cadets are only here in Granada for their core flying phase. The UK based cadets will return to either the UK or travel to Italy for the sim/type rating phase. The other airline cadets will stay in Spain (at a different location) for their sim/type rating phase.
• There has been significantly bad weather over the winter, and that has been one of the factors that contributed to the significant delays we're experience here. But, it is also very clear (in our opinion) that there was no mitigation or contingencies in place to handle this. And as mentioned in a previous post, they still decided it was right to start more classes during the bad weather phase, only increasing the amount of students who weren't completing missions.

Why offer this AMA?

• We've seen a few posts recently about experiences here, and wanted to provide a single goto thread for anyone needing information.
• In our opinion, CAE are not being very transparant or forthcoming with information to us. So, we can only assume it is the same for those cadets still in ground school. If they can't get their questions answered, or want to hear from cadets who are actively here and experiencing it, we feel being able to answer those questions truthfully will allow them to make informed decisions.
• We're sure there will be a lot of negative things we need to discuss, but that doesn't mean we won't have some positive answers too. Hopefully this AMA will also aleviate some concerns or rumours as well!