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Old 28th Aug 2006, 08:53
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Wee Weasley Welshman
 
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Wingbar - been where you are now, keep slogging away and you'll probably make it in the next year or so. Things often appear out of the blue in the world of job hunting.

The only advantage to an Integrated course is that the large school MIGHT get a call from an airline looking for new cadets to interview as you approach the end of your training. In this way you MIGHT get an interview and MIGHT get selected for an airline job straight out of school.

If that doesn't happen then six months down the line it doesn't matter if you spent £80k at the Worlds Premier Academy of Aviation Excellence or at Little Piddlington in the Marsh flying club. You'll have a license, no hours and be rusty as hell and therefore fail your simride assessment.

The airlines which sometime advertise saying they require an Integrated training course nearly always end up hiring at least one applicant who did Modular. The exception would be BA. But then BA these days seem to be hiring mostly guys with 1,000's of hours on a jet with another airline.

Getting onto a CTC scheme should be your number one priority. They have placed large numbers of low time cadets with several airlines and look set to continue to do so.

Good luck, its hard to get a first job, always has been.

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