wl
Thank you for your response. I have cut and pasted your comments so that I may respond to them. Please find my response following yours
brootmeeno
You are just trying to get your cut betwen the trainee (paying customer) and its service providers (instructors from AirCan and sim owned by airlines but not yours). That's your business, period!
wl
Your comment indicates Im a broker. We are a bona fide training facility sanctioned by Transport Canada. Because there were no TRTOs in Canada,I lobbyed Ottawa for permission to do type ratings for individuals 6 years ago. Active Aerospace was granted permission to do type ratings in Canada under Transport Canadas General Aviation section. The Pacific Region has supported me throughout and I understand that AA is the only operator delivering type ratings to self sponsored individulas in Canada. We use Air Canadas simulators on a dry lease basis (I would not want to own my own simulators thankyou) and hire my fellow AC pilots I have known for some 30 years. (some are still employed and some are retired)
brootmeeno
Not that there is anything wrong with that, since I met several of your trainees 2 years ago,
wl
Again, we have someone like yourself that HEARD FROM A FRIEND. How can you comment about me or my organization from--I HEARD FROM A FRIEND basis. It does not lend to much creditability.
brootmeeno
and three of them that I kept in touch, made their training and passed at the price you agreed upon. Where it becomes a grey area (or pretty dark in this matter) it's when you insists having connections, contacts with other airlines to boost/help/connect your students with them, which is AN ABSOLUTE RUBBISH....
wl
If you read my last email correctly, i said that we hire former graduates that are now working for hiring airlines. Thats the connection or contact. I also said we guarentee nothing, only our ability to try to get this persons resume to the right person.
brootmeeno
Your self promoted ad on this topic earlier on, made reference of resumes landing on DFO's desks because of your help.
wl
As above, we do not claim to guarentee any resume to get to the DFOs desk, some do some dont. The object is to try and help the individual. Remember there is nothing in it for me. My time spent doing this is strictly free gratis. And yes, I make it very very clear at the start of the course that we will do our best. Thats it.
brootmeeno
There is nothing further from the truth and that's when people start getting upset with you.
wl
Please remember, initial qualifications make a big difference. Let me ask you something, if I mailed out 10 resumes to our contacts and 3 of the 10 had under 1000 hours of flying time, which person would be considered first? Maybe it is the low time fellows that are complaining.
brootmeeno
The three I mentionned earlier, never heard from you afterwards, and even thought you were hiding from them. That a couple of students landed jobs is a fact, but not thanks to you.
wl
I think if you go to our website
www.activeaerospace.com and select "testimonials" you will find an abundance of fellows that are happy campers and who have left their phone numbers and email addresses for you to get an opinion first hand.
brootmeeno
Nowhere do you help someone once they pass. There is nothing wrong with that in the absolute since you are just a training provider, but when you reckon having this power, then people will feel disapointed from your silence afterwards and some will post rants about yourself and your organization.
wl
All we can do is try to help them. If nothing comes of it, its because someone in the Airline does not like something about the person. We cannot predict what the outcome will be. We can only comment on past successes.
brootmeeno
So yes, you have a spacious facility, with a great software for homestudy, knowledgable instructors, I reckon most of the students did pass at the end with no extra cost, but please get rid of those so called connections you have with airlines. I called their chief pilots, either they don't know you or they don't want to talk about you.
wl
Why would they know me. My contacts are emloyees that used to be my students -not Chief Pilots.
brootmeeno
For all wannabees type trainees and to make a story short, go to Active if all you want is a ticket and then forget about it and don't expect any more help.
brootmeeno You dont know me, my organization, you dont know our product nor our marketing first hand but you certainly profess to be an expert (based on hearsay)
Thanks for your opinion, it gives me a chance to set the record straight, and please do yourself a favor and come down and visit us sometime.
W lazaruk