My dislike of Frode stems 90% from his 1999 BALPA speech. He calmly stood there and told the whole audience - even when cross questioned - that you simply would not get an interview with any airline unless you had an MCC. This was, and remains, a lie. Coming from a man adrently selling MCC courses this was a unpalatable. The bulk of his time was devoted to promoting his own commercial organisation and waxing lyrical about his somewhat limited new KingAir sim.
I have noted with some interest - as have others in the aviation training industry - the staff he has recruited to his company. I am glad you found them experienced and capable instructors.
This latest action of so crassly, ridicuously and cowboyishly attacking a highly respected pilots professional conduct in a *classroom* no less (I can bearly believe it still) only served to heighten my towering low regard for all things 4 Fources.
Perhaps you feel it was pompous of me to state that these days PPRuNe is around to speak the truth.
I make no apology at all for that sentiment. Perhaps you do not remember what things were like back in say 1996/7? You had some glossy brochures to read, an out of touch old chap down at the flying club and perhaps the Clive Hughes book to read about how to become an airline pilot. You really were a babe in the wood and many people got shafted as a result. Things like NVQ tax relief were withdrawn and thousands didn't even know it was going to happen and missed registration... People heard people like Frode at seminars and believed every word - they had to.
As least now you get a counterpoint here and if thats incorrect someone soon jumps in to say so - if its me or anyone else talking rubbish.
I'm glad lots of you had a good training experience at 4 Fources - I know plenty of people who have trained there and emailed me about the experience.
That fact I understand will breed loyalty to the organisation - it always does - but that does not stop me thinking the 1999 speech and abusing Hamrah were both crass abominations indicating something negative about the organisation in question.
Cheers,
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