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Old 28th Nov 2007, 22:09
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falconbis
 
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3000 hours of military fast jets is not a licence to do well the job required by Netjets. Military pilots have a learning curve too and its difficult to said how long will it take to fly as an Airline pilot for Netjets. It is true that the fail rate of military pilots at the upgrade is not low also. Military pilots are not better or worse than civilian Pilots but they have been trained differently for a total different job, over confidence could be also a problem, an Airline Pilot is not performing a mission. Saying that, one point that you have to take in consideration is the number of commuter pilots already hired by Netjets with 2500 to 3500 h most of them already ready for upgrade just waiting for seat to unlock or upgrade courses avalaibilities...we have about 1000 pilots now with already at least 100 to 200 First officers with 2 years of seniority and Netjets experiences who are ready for upgrade...unless you have a couple of influent friends from RAF in the training department its difficult to say how long its gone take... also a long waited seniority list is supposed to be released in January as lots of pilots are beeing fed up seeing new hires upgrading faster because of networking ...one thing you need to know before signing is that rules can changed very quickly at Netjets so if you cannot live with 57000 euros gross you are taking an important risk !
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