Oxford Air Traiining (merged)
The following is taken off OATs new "waypoint scheme" website:
"We are pleased to announce our new Modular Training Programme - waypoint.
waypoint is a new Modular training course solution from OAT to enable some of the airlines with whom we work closely to consider recruiting modular graduates for their first airline job. However, they will only do so provided they achieve the required standard, but more importantly, provided they have carried out all their training with one provider - Oxford Aviation Training."
So, after years of telling us that airlines only like integrated students OAT are now telling us that they will after all take modular students, but ONLY IF THEY COME FROM THEIR SCHOOL!
What a compete load of tosh. The way that they have taken the business of flight training into being a marketing game which plays of the hopes and fears of young pilot wannabes to gain custom for their flashy, overpriced training programmes quite frankly disgusts me! The problem is that for every cynical, mature wannabe such as myself and many other PPRUNERS there will be many more fresh faced, straight from school, daddy funded wannabes who believe the hype.
My advice to any potential suckers out there,
if your gonna go integrated choose Cabair, a real flying school not a marketing circus.
Better still in my mind to go modular, there is still little chance of getting a job with minimum hours after finishing an integrated course. With the money you save by choosing this route you will be able to get yer FI rating and build your hours up to a more credible level, or even do a type rating and be better off in each case.
Rant over!