well, I have lots of examples, including myself ! When I got my first job on a JAR25 A/C I had a total of 200 hours
I know I was very lucky, but nevertheless I am far from being an exception !
I'l rather call it good networking and stainless steel-like determination. Was it an enchufe, though? Well, you know what it was and I take my hat off for you...
Be careful not to under estimate too much your spanish mates. I met lots of spaniards with an EXCELLENT level of english ! And bear in mind that there are lots of spanish guys with thousands of flight instruction.
I NEVER underestimate ANY human being regardless he/she is a plane-driver, waiter, kitchen-porter ecc,ecc. Mine was a mere quote of what a very experienced FI collegue said and based also on what I read on this site (remember the little incident that involved IB couple of moths ago?) and, guess what...He is Spanish so I believe what he says. If you tell me that all those 3500 are bilingual, experienced and unemployed the we are in the wrong biz...
.Thousands hrs as FIs? The Fleet-manager that rejected me at the last day of a 5 days long selection for a EU reg-airline, while reading my CV said 400 and something hrs (60 FI then) commented "...quite a lot of TT, though! Most of it on SEPs I suppose..." Got hte message? I did!
If they pay 3000 euros with a free type rating, which is not good for a european company but quite good for a Spanish company, I think it might interest lots of guys from Air Nostrum, Vueling, Air Madrid, etc, ..
Better than a kick in the ass, me think. But I wonder why they should be taking people from Spanish competitors only...
I don't know what Spanair really wants, I do suppose that they want a mixture of different backgrounds (low houred, type rated guys, ex Instructors, ex Regional or BizJet pilots, etc..)
We will find out on April 14th...Just got my mail for the Salamanca's happening!
Suerte tios y animo
PZ
