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Old 6th August 2004 | 18:01
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OZcabincrew
 
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i agree with OZskipper, although i found our training to be quite disorganised. The instructors were really good, one took us a while to work out, but in the end they were fine. We were the first class to go through the training in the new format. We found that there should've been more time spent on aircraft types, you tried to learn about one aircraft type in one day with the exam the following morning, then straight after that exam you're straight on to the next aircraft and then you've completely forgotten the aircraft you've just studied. So be aware there is a need for a lot of revising over manuals/notes etc and days/nights when you really want to go out, unfortunately you may not be able to because you have to study for the exam the next morning. But you get out what you put in! We were lucky while in training that we even got our uniforms done at all! Neither department, EP's or cabin services or something would let uniforms bite into their time, so all we got was 15 mins and pointed towards a room where there was a pile of uniforms on the floor and a few in the wardrobe and told do all of your uniform fittings here but you have to hurry cos the taxi is waiting for you!!!!!! It was quite rediculous, we're all lucky that most of our uniforms even fit us after measuring it all ourselves! Although there was quite a wait on some things, so we didn't get parts of our uniforms until after we were online! Our service training to me was a bit of a waste of time cos we didn't really do anything. They tried to teach us the Perth Cityflyer service in one day while mixing it in with a few other things, but it just went straight over everyone's heads, i think that part you'll learn once you're out online etc, but it's good to study your service guide and get an idea of the sequence of it all.

Overall training was good, great memories and photos! Good luck to everyone, just keep your heads down and study, but also come up for air every now and then and have a bit of a break!!!!

HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!

Oz
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