Hello Colomiers,
You may be taking this too personally, I'm not talking about you or denigrating your motivation. We train both modular and integrated students so I think I can comment on the generalities. There are very gifted students taking both routes and also some less so. Some of the younger integrated students we have had through have not been particularly easy. I have even had instructors, on occasions, complain they are talking amongst themselves at the back of the class, which to me is an indication of both immaturity and overconfidence, this would be unheard of with modular students, it has only ever occured when training integrated cadets.
Most of our modular students are in the 25 to 40 age range, changing careers, most of the integrated students are 20 to 25-ish. In general it is the single pilots that jump ship early on in their employment, the married ones, usually older, go more for stability and a quiet life and tend to be more satisfied with turboprop/regional jobs. Anyone can go to BA, if they want, you only need 500 hours+ of commercial experience and they'll consider you as a DEP. Not everyone wants to, BA ain't what it used to be. A case in point, BA poached some ex CTC cadets from Easyjet last year, modular trained. None of the 'we only take integrated' rubbish, well, not if they are line trained and we are short staffed. Another case in point, a friend of mine, single, modular trained, started with BAC Express flying sheds, then joined CityFlyer, and after BA took them over he now flies the 777. No-one said 'excuse me, did you go to an integrated school?'
Last edited by Alex Whittingham; 24th April 2008 at 23:28.