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Old 28th May 2003, 23:02
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Wee Weasley Welshman
 
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STOP BEING IMPRESSED BY THE SIM!!!

The Sims for MCC are irrelevant. I'd use an upturned orange crate with dials chalked on if the CAA would license it.

You should be asking about student to aircraft ratios. They are critical to your chances of finishing the course on time, on budget and with good continuity.

You should be asking about averaged instructor experience. Does the average instructor have 500hrs instructional 1,000hrs, or 5,000+hrs. That is going to make a heck of a lot more difference to the quality of your training than whether or not the simulator is a fake Boeing or an obscure old bizjet.

Is the accomodation quiet and air conditioned? How many are in each groundschool class? How up to date is the CBT material? What ratio of flying students to examiners is there? What percentage of flying days are unflyable due weather? Does the airfield have any odd restrictions on training during peak times/months?

All these questions and more are far far more pertinent than the fact Big Airways may have sent cadets to use the shiny sim there sometime in the last decade.

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