wind check - you started on here producing incorrect statements about the easyJet cadet contract currently on offer. Now you are making outlandish and woefully ignorant statements about flying the Airbus that are frankly embarassing. I fully accept that flying the A320 on MS Flt Sim is not too tricky but once you get out and about on a real aircraft of any kind, be it a Boeing or Airbus, you will just have to accept that some skill is required. You are coming across like a fresh air thief - you may want to reflect on your comments and think of a better way of engaging your readers.
Alright, what I wrote was true, cadets are offered a 14 days a month winter contract and salary is 2500 GBPs a month (or 210 GBP a day plus flight pay). Lots of those cadets were offered this contract yesterday to bases like Milano, Lyon and Belfast. You'd better go and ask around yourself mister i-know-everything instead of making yourself an obvious idiot.
Secondly, please be less stupid than your friends here, I am not a microsft flight sim pilot, havent touch this thing (very realistic though) for 10 years now. I used to fly the A320 for a south european low cost airline, and I know what I am talking about.
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Wind check, don't worry too much about the criticism. A lot of these guys probably got their command during the last few years, after spending countless hours in front of a mirror wearing 4 stripes and practicing PA's ("this is your captain speaking..."), so anyone that threatens to pop their bubble is aggressively attacked.
You are absolutely right, this is the perfect picture of what we find here. Those guys who still try to take their best voice when they do their PA that none of their passengers would listen. And those kind of mates will walk in the terminal with their yellow stripes (as yellow as their teeth) and nobody will dream on them. When the weather is lovely, they will also fly the FD bars from ground to FL100, on a straight line! and they'll disconnect everything (appart from the autotrim
), and they will feel like real B707 pilots like the the 1960's
Michael O'leary is not my favourite one, but I am realistic and I must admit that he has been anticipating with a genuine success what aviation is and he knows how it will be. Modern aircraft, easy to operate, with cheap cadets and there you go! He has been the first to charge for checkin luggage, then easyjet was part of the airline who followed that brillant idea, and today, Iberia, Air France-KLM, and British Airways are about to do it as well! something interesting coming up in the years to come. Yes the low cost is an aviation Cancer and goes on very quickly.
Look at how is Ryanair how are Ryanair pilots now, and you will have an idea of the aviation of tomorrow in all airline companies.
When MOL say that pilots are mokeys seated on a bus with wings, paid to much for doing nothing, he is quite right, although It pisses me off.