ALL wannabes please read! Truth about aviation!
I cant believe the arogance of people on this board. Mechantloup speaks the truth and is correct about so many things in aviation. All people do on this board is criticise him because they don't like what he says i.e. the TRUTH! It really shows the ingnornace and disregard for other people's opinions. Some people say they have an MCC and CRM after this display I question your training.
I think you people on this board are very rude people. I wonder if we had a face to face conversion would it all break down into chaos and anarchy because you simply wouldn't allow people to voice themselves. I think this would be the case unfortunately.
You think because you have spent a fortune on your JAA licence that gives you the right to:
(a) snub other countries licences which are loads cheaper such as the USAs. Because yours is expensive that equals good or the BEST. WRONG! You snub the FAA's question banks which are made avaiable to people. But your own JAA questions are such a mess you don't even understand the questions themselves. The questions are based on no syllabus known to man bar a few JAA burocrats in Brussels. But yet you have the audacity to critise.
and (b) think you have some right becuase you have spent all this money to walk into any Airbus job in any airline without lowering YOURSELF to air-taxi work and other LOWLY forms of aviation, that well isn't worth a mention becuase you don't get to wear a fancy uniform. With only 200 hours!
YOU ARE WRONG MY FRIENDS ABOUT A GREAT DEAL OF THINGS!
I can't believe people on this board who say its great i've just got £30K from the HSBC now I can do my training. They seem to be so naive, they don't seem to think they will have to pay back 45K. But hey, theres no telling these people. They have a comeback 'Whats 40K when you are a Captain of B777!' WRONG AGAIN MY FRIENDS! TRY paying it back when you are JOBLESS!
There seems to be a total lack of awarness of the current climate. There are simply NO jobs in aviation!
Get a JAA PPL and have some fun in the sky but DO NOT go any further becasue it is simply a waste of money, time and energy. The only ones who benefit are the JAA and the flying schools. Look at your flying school. I bet many members have their JAA ATPL/IRs. Have you had a spin in their A320 which is parked up by the flying school buildings? NOPE I DON'T THINK SO. Its because there are no jobs. Most of the members with CPLs are doing jobs that they were doing even before they started flying.
The airlines only want people from the RAF and sponsored cadets. How many times do I have to tell you! Everyone else ends up with a CPL and no flying job OR becoming a career flying instructor. Airlines simply do not want people who have paid for their training.
Spend your 50K on your flying. Be in debt for years! If you are very very lucky you will end up flying a air taxi in bad weather, during the night in hurried sectors. Mass and balance will usually be exceeded and you will dare not say anything because you will lose your job! This is aviation my friends but only for the lucky few.
As for the ones on this site who have got jet jobs, well they are few and far between. You don't hear about the guys who fail and give up because many of these can't even afford a decent computer let alone the internet!
Take this advice on board. As for the the 'wannabes' who have a route all planned out upto their MCC but haven't even clocked up an hour in their logbooks, I pity them!