Modern Monkey
Your origianl post/rant serves very little purpose to wannabies apart from making you look very anti OAA. Is there a reason behind this?
OAA have been training cadets for many years and will continue to do so I'm sure. The fact that RYR has taken a lot of pilots this year is not the fault of OAA. Would you rather OAA graduates did not get these jobs?
Who cares where you get your first job. BA/BMI would be great, but not really realistic for most. At least OAA publish their figures and are happy to take the flak accordingly.
Training to fly is expensive whichever route you take unfortunatley and wannabies should do research in full thermselves. Your rant hardly helps them.
I suspect that persons on this site would listen to your views more if you had experienced OAA, rather than just taking a pop for an unknown reason. Why not rant against the other FTO's - because they don't publish their figures, that's why. Perhaps some more constructive comments from you might help.
The maths aint hard - today 105 in 5.36 months = 235 pro rata for 12 full months.
Skintman