Straight questions Dillydally.
6 posts up to this point - 5 boosted that school. You have never mentioned your IR, GFT's or equivalent, location for hour building or even your PPL. This is not so much unusual as unique - any comments why?
According to you Bristol Ground School, err, didn't suit as all can read above. How does that tally with this completely unedited post from December 2002?
My experience
I think its time that someone said what actualy went on at 4-forces and how they are in no way linked to CATS.
I was a former full time ATPL student at 4 forces who ended up closing half way through my course. I thought I would have to pay more money to go to another flying school but was offered an entire new course at CATS for no extra cost through their current CGI at CATS. The only history that CATS has with 4 Forces is one of their instructors who used to work for them. The two main problems with 4 forces (who happened to be brothers) happly vanished and CATS took any student from 4 forces that wanted help, free of charge until they held the licence they payed for at 4 forces. In fact, the current CGI at CATS spent his own personal savings on getting students through their training until they passed.
Instead of listerning to the WISE WORDS!!!! of certain people here, why not spare £10 on petrol and go and see them. I went there last week to see how they were doing, not knowing that they had been chosen to train certain airline cadets. Put it this way, if paying for students from 4 forces out of their own pocket isnt a big enough commitment to students, then what is?
And before anyone speculates, No I dont work for them. They got me through my ATPL in 6 months with everyone passed first time above 85% (and im not an academic).
Meanwhile, yesterday you wrote on another thread:
Take my advice.....try cranfield aviation training school. I started at bristol, didnt get much help, went to Cranfield aviation training and finished my exams in three months.
3 months?? 6 months?? Which was it please ??
If you assert the above is also true when did you manage to actually work with Bristol Ground School and sit the exams?
Did you sit JAA exams with BGS?
Why would you pay a substantial sum of money to go to BGS when the course is offered for free?
Which exams did you actually pass and where? The above suggests they were all at the other school but you've clearly stated earlier in the thread that you got 6 passes at BGS.
Why did you go there after such a warm offer from the new school rising from 4F's ashes?
What notes did you use at the other School - specifically were they the 4Forces ones? Notes which have become a true legend in the UK training industry.(Rebuttal invited from
ANY party on that last point)
The chronology suggests that it is a least 2 full years since you could possibly have had anything to do with BGS. Why only post regarding one school in the most glowing terms yet never mention any other part of your training? You went through the modular route therefore you have passed through several training organisations.
Finally Dillydally, are you a devoted religious person? I ask in all seriousness as you were ripped of for an entire ATPL course but as readers can see for themselves you have never uttered one word of criticism for Frode and his merry band - it's either saintly or almost as if you weren't even there or it wasn't your money. Meanwhile I'm sitting here in the Middle East right next to someone who was on that final 4Forces course.
I stand by my points made earlier: The search engine is on for everyone to check for themselves. One topic posters supposedly earning a licence can never be trusted.
Rob Lloyd