How much impact does an OAT report have?
I've just finished my CPL with Oxford and I'm well into the IR.
While I'm happy with the standard of training (especially ground school) on the APP course, I did struggle a little. Sure I have first time passes in ground and flight tests - indeed I worked my undercarriage off to get them.
HOWEVER...... as promised, OAT have written a report which they fully intend to make available to the airlines who approach them looking for me and my fellow APP graduates. Mine isn't brilliant. Rather than buzz words like "enthusiastic" and "eager", mine has worrying highlights like "lack of concentration", and my favourite "Relaxed in his approach" (this from an instructor in Phoenix who fell asleep during a flight around an 8000ft mountain in N.Arizona while my Pa28 Arrow developed an over heating problem after the climb from Sedona at a p.Alt of 5500ft)
Does anyone out there know how much ofthis is taken as gospel and what sort of reports the airlines prefer etc. Should I buy myself a 6ft length of rope or not worry so much?