You've got me going now!
Here i was trying to give a complete guide to the scheme to let everyone make an individual choice but then i thought, what the hell, there's an election going on. It's time to get into a fight and dish the dirt.
I think STurns had better get along to Hellstree before too long. I've just been told that 6 of the staff have left in the last 2 months! 2 fixed wing, all 3 heli guys and one ops member,(sadly not the space cadet, Frank!)
Respect!! Boys and girl!
Another fundamental problem about Cabair is that the directors give out false information about this scheme to try and lure you to sign up to it. A major concern for you all is the ability to survive for the 3 years that you will spend with them. They do not inform you that you will not be payed for one year of this for a start. Secondly, I was informed that I would earn £15,000 a year and that someone had recently received £17,000. In actual fact my pay for year one was closer to £12,000. That would then aquate to £8000 pa over the 3 years. All this before the company dished out 3, yes 3, pay cuts.
I know that £12,000 is probably considered quite a lot as far as instructor pay goes but when you are planning your budget to live then a 3 year commitment requires a sound backing. Again it is typical of Cabair to let everyone know that they pay the most but they have hidden the fact that you will not get anything for a third of your time there! Also, London prices as everyone knows have a much higher impact on your monthly take home pay. The net result is that you end up obtaining yet more loans to help get you through. If you had known all this at the start then you would have been better off doing an upgrade modular course without having 3 years of bullying.
Do you know how hard it is to get a loan as an instructor when you have no contract of employment with klm uk whatsoever. That's the beauty of it. When it all goes tit's up and klm uk don't even offer you a job at the end it has all been a shambles from start to finish. Yet Cabair have got what they wanted.
I can also relate to the lack of support given by the directors when approaching them with your financial problems. "there are plenty of others willing to work for that you know." No, I didn't know, that's the whole point! Had I known you were going to cut the pay I could have perhaps done something about it before I started.
Frank does paint a bleak picture but there will be a lot of Cabair instructors reading this and having a very loud chuckle to themselves. They all know what it is like so get down to a school and make your own choice.
Please don't enrage me to say much more.
I can respond to any individual questions that people may have if anyone can't manage to get to a school.
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