Not so costly the Conversion ...as mainly only the ground School is involved (More some foreign schools -Australia, Thailand for example-, have former Malaysian Ground Instructors in their staff and can prepare you to the Malaysian CA2/CA6, within the "package" ). The Flying side of the conversion is reduced to some tests. It is well known than some european Instructors, JAR licence holders, have passed the Malaysian licence examination -on their own, without any ground training, because the JAR level is highly covering the Malaysian syllabus (Except in few obsolete remnants not yet removed in the Malaysian syllabus and that you have to study again in depth and some very few old questions in which today technology has nullified the good answer).
It is better to be trained as a professional and to get a Job in an airlines than to be useless and unable to reimburse the bank loans: consider twice the situation, the Malaysian market is fuelled with Malaysian CPL/IR most of them of poor quality due to their poor training, ....not every new malaysian CPL/IR will join the first class airlines,.... on contrary a proper professional training will give you a definitive advantage and later on the possibility to get a larger choice: choice of Airlines, not only to be confined to Malaysia....
Check thoroughly GGFIA and the other Malaysian schools, a Website can be an impressive construction of a IT specialist far from the real world.... Internet is the world of "Virtual".
I recommand to check particularly:
-Ratio of students per Flight Instructor, (Overall - Students in the Ground School and in the Flying School-less than 6 students per one Flight Instructor)
-fleet (one aircraft = around 6/7 students per year MAXIMUM),
-maintenance (How many LAME -Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer) . The JAR/FAR states that some operations must be cross checked.... so a bare minimum of 2 LAME, how is done this maintenance? Are the students autorised to fill the technical log book? If the technical log book are fully empty.... it does not mean that the aircraft are correctly maintained, on contrary.... there is probably somewhere a secrete note book....
- Do your contract (Like Airline cadet) comprise an engagement on maximum duration of the training and financial penalties if not respected?
Good Luck
Last edited by Passenger 07; 25th Dec 2007 at 09:59.