I've just been fortunate enough
to have recently been invited to a Ryanair Assessment day at EMA. I failed the sim, and have no grievancies about that but I feel that everyone going for this adventurous day out, I was there for 11 hours and it cost GBP300 , should be aware that you have a very slight chance of succeeding and that this bullish airline has found another way of making CASH. This time from desperate low houred wanabee pilots who have given everything in order to make a career from flying but who just need a chance. Congatulations to everyone who has passed the assessment but even after the self financed type rating course they enter a contract period and are not employed by the company.
There is a wealth of pilots for them to choose from but by heck you've gotta be good... real good for a low houred jockey. Reality is they are just ploughing through as many as they can, taking they're money and saying cheers, "Roll Up Roll Up who's next and fancies their chances??" BEWARE!
I'd be happy to give more info if anyone is interested...