My first post on pprune.... here goes:
I Have frozen ATPL's which I acquired in September 2007...So I started job hunting like made and like most, found it harder than I had anticipated! Airline jobs that were available seemed to be ones where you fund your own type... I'm a young guy with many many years (hopefully) ahead of me to walk through the cockpit door of an airbus so my goel posts changed and I found myself looking down the instructor road, and looking at the Cabair FI sponsorship. Cut the story short: I was invited for an interview early Oct 2007 at Elstree. I was told there and then that I will be accepted for the FI sponsorship - £1000 net p.m, £25 p.h after first 20hours of the month, £10 for ferry flights and upto £13 p.h for ground school. Now to get to this point I did personally hand in my CV at cranfield, and keep chasing them up untill I got the interview.
My start date is meant to be the end of January - this month at Cranfield. I am also yet to receive any form of contract or written letter to say I have been successful.
I have since my interview in October chased cabair up every two weeks via phone and visiting them personally... each time I was assure that the contract will be done at the end of the week, and the delay was due to internal confusion about who was responsible, and I was told not to worry as I have been successful.
Yesterday I called around the company to chase up the progress of my contract, and to find exact details for the start of the FI course - location, time and what would be required of me. To my surprise I found that cabair cranfield knew nothing of an FI course for the end of January, so I went back to the gentleman who conducted my interview. To my surprise I was told that the contract has now changed, and that the package was the following:
Net £1000 p.m
NO £25p.m after the first 20 hours
NO £10 p.h for ferry flight
NO extra pay for ground school
Free revalidation of my ME/IR
Free Glass cockpit conversion.
Commitments - 2 Years/1500 hours.
This as you can understand is substantially different pay without any incentive for flying over 20 hours a month..... why wasn't I told this over 3 months ago?? I happen to live on my own and I am now faced with the dilema of how do I live on £1000 p.m for the next two years? after spending over £40k to get to this possition of frozen ATPL's....
Has anyone else reading this found themselves in the same position as me with the cabair FI sponsorship?