"But i can assure you they fly more than any other academy in the region due to the fact that we are located in a very quiet airport"
Firstly, welcome to the forums Mr.Atalla after a very long time. I hope that you're doing well.
Regarding the earlier post that I have outlined in red, I would like to comment on it as a statement that is not true. Possibly the news that you got was falsely pledged to you because when I left Ayla I had 62hours in my log book and now I have around 80+ which I have gained in 1 week and 2 days which also includes the extreme heavy traffic.
I would like to congratulate Ebrahime for his decision and his license. How I wish I went to Scotland or wherever.
Regarding the whole Gulf Air approval issue that you have brought up, from which official did you get that information from if I may ask, I would understand if it is calssified information. There is a lot of contradicting from Ayla and Gulf Air's side, each company is saying something else.
Well, I can't add up more to what my buddy Mike has stated earlier in all of his posts
"it is NOT JAA approved, but JAA based which was clearly stated in our marketing material and our web site."
Your marketing people had a lack of communication skills when it came to this issue because a sum of people who did not have a proper background were pulled into believing stuff that were not true. I am pretty sure that this issue is well done from it as your ex-marketing manager is no longer part of AAA.
"except for class delta which was delayed due to a major fleet change"
All of us know that this is not the only reason, Mr. Atallah.
"(something every safe pilot should understand), we do our best to cope, so long as it does not compromise safety or quality of training."
It's comforting that you brought up the safety issue. It's true but we used to have SPLs and we had FI next to us. FIs are qualified to fly planes that operate normally but could suddenly catch a flame but I would really to thank you for what you have done when you made the fleet change decision but what really leaves me in a dilemma is that even after all of that has happened you allowed class Charlie to fly the same planes that suffered from the same problems to fly solo with their PPL only while the FI has a lot more.
"Building issue"
There is no denial in what Mr. Atallah has done for us when we were attacked by 14kids with knives, stones and wrenches at 2:00am + they demloished our colleagues scooter. Mr. Atallah came to us the next day and hired a couple of body guards for us 24hours a day and has allocated us into a new building within 94hours.
"I believe it is a combination of anger and frustration. perhaps some x-employees who are disgruntled, perhaps some x-cadets who were delayed and decided to leave (contrary to their sponsor airlines' advice)"
Your thoughts could be wrong regarding this matter. You know me Mr. Atallah and I was possibly the most quiet person in the Academy and I never used to address much and when I did, I did it in a very brief manner. You even gave me that watch after we've helped you. You were good with me, the academy was good with me and I started to be good with my surrounding environment but after things were not going straight and "transparent", every other person started saying something else. We were not the only ones who got frustrated, you did as well when we came back to Aqaba and you didn't let us get into the hangar and then made people follow us all around and were embarrassed infront of our colleagues. So, you see it is a mutual frustration at SOME point LATER.
"Ayla's moto is "Pilots Empowered", and our basic premise is that we train captains, not just pilots."
Regarding this point I will attach it to the previous point, That's a very nice moto but you didn't treat us as captain nor as pilots when the things started to go rough.
"The PPL flying phase is 45 hours. if a cadet takes 50 or 60 then he/she is charged for the difference. I am not sure what you mean by "you are responsible". Our responsibility to to make sure he/she is ready for the PPL check ride, and the Flight Instructor and the CFI decide when a cadet is ready for the check ride, not me. So if a cadet takes longer than the syllabus, then we do charge them for the difference, just like all other FTO's. This is customary and standard practice across the industry."
Mr. Atallah, I know and you know what the truth is when it comes to Delta. Most of class Delta are capable flyers and most of them were ready for their check-rides after they have done their pre-check such as me and my other colleagues but after a silly managerial decision we were put back to flying solo for at least 15hours and we got back to doing a pre-check all over again. Whose fault is it?.
How many times did our checkride got delayed? We got one amazing reply "all of the hotels are fully booked" since when Aqaba got to be Southern France?
As we were taught once by the best instructor in the academy Mr. Mark Murphy "Once you mess up, you're going to mess up in everything else and as we call it in the aviation industry Chain of Errors". This is what you are suffering from Mr. Atallah, as a fellow human to another human I would suggest that you change everyone in your management and have a new start.