Re: Eastern Airways Scam
silverknapper,
"At the end of the long road getting a CPL people should jump at any opportunity".
Really? Even if it means paying to be assessed and not getting paid during groundschool? What next, £50 for Eastern to read your CV? No pay during line training? Half pay once line training completed until 6 months flying has been completed?
I think the reason some people have posted their disquiet is that at a time when the market is supposedly "good" for low-time pilots (and that is a relative term), we are seeing another company follow the Ryanair approach to pilot recruitment.
Now, just because you are happy with the situation doesn't mean other wannabes shouldn't be able to come on to this bulletin board and express their disquiet about it. It's a disturbing new development and one not to be welcomed.
I'm with MaxReheat on this.
"It is the self-funded ground school and sim ride where the compnay, and others doing the same, are taking the proverbial"
"PPrune is weighed under with threads concerning the erosion of terms and conditions professional pilots have suffered over the past 10 years, the self financing of type ratings etc. While people are prepared to sell themselves short to the likes of this unpaid work scheme Eastern is trying, then employers will continue to try it on and the mugs will still roll in through the gates."
Last edited by Bertie Bassett; 13th Jan 2006 at 13:57.