Originally Posted by er1cw
Hi all,
Does anyone know about the Private Candidate programme offered by Singapore flying college ?
Are you referring to the programme where you pay them and they turn you into an fATPL holder?
Or the part where you just show up for ground school to sit the ATPL papers?
While they have taken self-funded students for the entire course, those cases have been very rare (IIRC near the start of their existence in 1989 and not since?).
On the other hand students (with flying experience) who show up just for the ATPL phase have been accepted at the rate of maybe 10 per year in recent years.
Originally Posted by er1cw
Will i get the same opportunities as fellow SIA sponsored candidates to become a pilot after completion of the programme ?
No. Not same as in identical. But if you network well and be best student you would get noticed. On the surface it's probably less of a gamble than doing your ATPL in UK or wherever, but that's all theoretical because there has been no cases of self funded students (to do the whole ATPL programme) in recent years anyway.