and how many of you pissed off modular people who have done 1 tiny bit of training at OATS still come back years later to the careers presentations and whinge like girls that Oxford don't get you a job??? quite a few I should imagine.
Oxford as has been said here many times before is what you put into it, I finished my IR in the 8 weeks given with our instructor being on holiday for some of that to boot. But at the same time there are people on my course who 6 weeks later where still doing it - mainly because of weather delays, but they also didn't push to get flights done in early days. In my whole course of 14 odd months I finished 1 week late, and that was due to the number of modular guys booking up the MCC courses. Instruction was excellent, first time passes in everything so little to complain about. If you are not prepared to put the work in, or expect someone to hold your hand through your training then maybe aviation isn't for you, it won't happen on your type training, so get used to it.
To those starting training remember that negative comments always go further than positve ones, and there is always little positive to say about Oxford on pprune because the numerous happy people with Oxford can never be bothered to get the constant barrage from a few individuals everytime we make a post.
As regards to attitude of staff at OXford, well they treated me pretty good - maybe dogpilot was unlucky with an odd instructor or expected a Eton reunion type atmosphere
And finally I don't understand his post "the truth about oxford" anyway, in his final paragraph he sums it up "Excellent reputation (why else would you go there as a modular guy and pay more... because airlines have at least heard of them), instruction was excellent (so you were happy then, why this posting?), took longer (could be many reasons, there has been crappy weather over the summer, maybe you didn't like doing 2 trips a day... who knows), feel like you have been ripped off - thats aviation training in general and can happen anywhere - but hey I did APP and feel like I got value for money because I payed my set price and got exactly what I expected having done my research.
BigAir