Firstly Hello Dave how are 737-800s doing? Nice to hear from you.
wbryce, just a clarification. As far as I realise you didn't choose Egnatia Aviation because we where not registered with the Carrer development loans and you found some excuses for IR Jiffy Hoods ect. This is your choice and you have every right to come to us or not. Now a few statistics that can be checked any time for their accuracy.
Egnatia Aviation logged in 2007 6000 training hours with 5 aircraft. This is over 1000 hours per aircraft. Maintenance issues? Some but who doesn't in aviation. You cannot do much if there is not stock availability at the manufacturers or there is a certain service bulletin that grounds your aircraft until parts are available. Anyway since last July Egnatia Aviation has an approved Maintenance Organisation by EASA which has sorted most of these issues. Even with these old issues over 1000 hours per aircraft is a great deal of training. We just bought a new DA40 D so now the aircraft are 6. There are another 2 DA40s on order and we are negotiating for another twin. We will hopefully have 9 by this summer.
Today the 168th student enrolled. A fairly new school that has 168 students in the first 18 months of operation is quite successful so we must be doing something right. Students who attended at the school obtained until now 60 PPLs, 45 CPLs, 50 IRs. That’s only what the HCAA have issued and not other authorities. The average time for a licence to be issued these days from the HCAA after intense negotiations we made is 2-4 weeks. That’s 2 weeks less than the average authority.
Last month our students obtained a 96% pass rate at the ATPL theory tests. We are using the best material on the market in my opinion.
I think those are enough facts to clear some things that have been published on the forum the last few months. I believe in free will and that everybody has their own opinion that is absolutely respectable.
However I prefer to spend my time in improving any quality issues at the school rather than trying to defend ourselves in the small amount of students or wannabies that visited and didn't enjoy their visits or expected to come to the sunny paradise. We are offering Pilots training and not luxury holidays in the sun. As Dave mentioned we cannot keep everyone happy. Everybody has the right to stay in the accommodation we offer or not. All we are trying to do is make life easier for people/students so they can concentrate on their training without worrying about finding house, pay the bills etc.
Finally graduates from Egnatia Aviation are now flying for many airlines as Aegean Airline (Greece), Ryanair etc. By the way I also believe that is not the school but the individual that gets the job so well done guys!!
Poulidis and anybody else. You are more than welcome to contact me for further/accurate/updated info.
Thanks and sorry for the long post>>>
DimitrisL
Egnatia Aviation Director
[email protected]
Last edited by delmouzos; 20th December 2007 at 06:43.