Whatever the quality of training offered by OAT, the management do seem to make more than their share of cr@p decisions. Over recent years we've seen:
Let's move modular training to Gloucester - err, no, bad move, let's bring it back again.
Let's stop PPL training - err, no, bad move, let's start it again
Let's stop modular training - err, no, bad move, let's start it again
Let's get our overseas training done by UND, err ACA, err American Flyers, err Pan Am, err.......
Let's abandon this silly overseas training partners idea and buy a school in Tyler - now that was a doozy that, by all accounts, almost bankrupted them!
Now it's - Let's give the punters what they don't want and call it an APP course - err, no, bad move, nobody's signing up, let's restart the old integrated course again. Remember when APP used to stand for Airline Partnership Programme? - until they couldn't find any partners.
Meanwhile, every time I fly in to Oxford, the Ops Room's been re-modelled - and why is Oxford the only regional airport to look like Stalg Luft IX?
Oh yes, and I hear that they've just been savaged by the CAA inspectors - again.