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Old 24th January 2002 | 15:08
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Cruise Alt
 
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Lots of experts on Welshpool on the Forum. I have worked here for 3 months. Before that I trained with the RAF in a UAS, Oxford, and completed my FIC at White Waltham. I then stared instructing at European Flyers before moving to Welshpool. Out of the instructors I work with no one will fly when the conditions are not safe. Incidentally for those who seem to think that the instructors are inexperienced I am the greenest with only 600 hours, the others have 4 figure logbooks. Yes there is pressure from the management to fly - it is a commercial job! There is not however as much management pressure to fly as I witnessed at Oxford, or was subjected to at EF. Here the instructors decision is respected - I have never had my job threatened for not flying. I cannot say what happened in the past, only my experience of the present. I am also not commenting on any character clashes people seem to have had - only how I view the quality of the flying training. And that is better than the 3 clubs I have flown with previously. There is more continuity and personal attention than I have seen at other schools.
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