Egnatia hour building to ATPL

[ron83]

Ok guys,for those who is interested about it,that,what was in PM that George have sent to me.
Hi Ron,

Thanks for your interest in Egnatia Aviation.

No priority is given to Greeks, Cypriots, British or any other nationality for that matter. It was somebody’s anonymous opinion and it is unfounded. All students receive equal attention and their progress vastly depends on their commitment and attitude. If you turn up when you should, prepare well and work with your instructor you will progress faster. Most students fail to realise that you need to think as a commercial pilot from the first day of your training. In our opinion this is an essential ingredient of your training.

Regarding your questions:
1 – There are no guarantees in aviation. No responsible school will guarantee that you will complete your training on a specific date or timescale as this depends mostly on you. Egnatia Aviation can promise, as a responsible FTO, that we will do whatever possible for you to finish on time and there will be no stupid delays as you put it. For courses such as the 0-ATPL, there is more flexibility to catch up if for whatever reason a certain module finished late. You can also leave part of the training such as Hour Build for later, or in between ATPL Theory stages as 6 or 9 months is a long time without any flying. We work out a student specific course which gets updated regularly based on progress etc. Financially, it is better for us for people to finish early too.

2 – The course lasts 11 – 12 months depending on Christmas and Easter holidays. The school does not close more than 4 days for each but many students request to go back home for longer than that, something that we understand, and provided that their progress permits it, we are flexible. An instructor is available even during those days as we get many requests from the locals for pay-as-you-go training and trial flights.

3- No there have been no significant delays due to the weather, aircraft or instructor availability. There has been a delay in PPL theory exams for a couple of students due to a transitional period with the Hellenic CAA which was resolved today (as it happens), but as these students are here for 0 – ATPL they will not loose any time overall. Egnatia Aviation has asked officially JAA to honour the ‘mutual recognition’ concept and status between member states as it would appear that some started to drift away from what JAA (and EASA) is all about and this issue is going to be raised at the next authorities and council meetings.

4 – Nobody has yet failed an ATPL Theory exam and the average is exactly 96%

5 - As I mentioned above this is not an issue.

6 – The professor teaches in the classroom 3 days a week at present (the days are irrelevant) for this stage, plus one of our instructors is also teaching/coaching for at least one more day. They are not classed as Self-study. Our students are getting ready for 6 subjects next month. We are of course working on not only resolving any remaining issues with the ATPL Theory instructors but also to provide a more modern, flexible and effective system. We have at least 13 people waiting to start the next stage at the end of April.

Feel free to come and visit. This will give you the opportunity to speak not only to the instructors but also to many students from all over the world. Your opinion will then be based on named individuals and not on an anonymous objective comment.

We are always available. Take care,

George