Originally Posted by 9M-
Once selected, you will join the cadets just like SIA. Go thru the ground school in seletar for 6 months, go to jandakot get your CPL/IR. Afterwhich, you will see your friends from SIA proceed to their learjet training and you will be posted back to malaysia flying acedamy to be trained as an assistant flying instructor for 2 months. Afterwhich you will continue to work for MFA and train the malaysian cadets for a further 6 months before aquiring your full QFI. Thereafter you will be posted back to SFC in seletar and start your duties.
Your duties mainly involve training cadets for their basic handling like , EOC1, S&L, Turns etc, then proceed to circuits and landings. Usually the cadets training will end at their first solo flight. You will not be doing any navigations and you will just traiin cadets till their first solo. Passion IS A MUST because you will be doing this for 5 damn years and i tell you to be an instructor is not an easy task if one is not interested at all. Another thing is if you have a mindset of hoping to go SIA after your contract ends, then this mentality will kill and torture you every single day of your life there as you will be dealing with cadets passing out batches after batches.
Hope this helps and indeed this is a good backdoor i would say for the young not the old, unless u want to be an instructor all your life
Thanks a lot for the info 9M.
Further questions if you allow:
1) Is the 5 years you mentioned a contract?
2) Does the cadet have to pay for the training he received while instructing at SFC? (I'm aware that even SIA requires its pilots to pay a sum like $36k?)
I think instructing at the PPL level is definitely more interesting, but his is definitely a good option for poor earthworms.
Hear ya!
cruiser