JOC
magicmick,pends an interesting question.
However,the statement 'you pays your money, you takes your choice' made by Alex, is a direct insinuation that a good value for money JOC, is somehow not 'up to scratch'! Interesting.
The JOC at CRM Aviation is £749, and is priced like this for a very good reason. The course totals 8 hours, 4 ground school and 4 in the sim. The JOC is just that - a jet orientation course - not a type familiarisation course, or a duplicate of CRM/MCC instruction. Purely an ‘orientation’ course highlighting the differences between multi engine piston and multi engine turbofan operations. A JOC is a non EASA approved course - there is no such thing as an EASA approvedJOC - yet! The JOC also offers no credit towards a type rating either.
Many of the current recruiting airlines like Wizz, Jet2 and Flybe request a JOC as well as an MCC prior to application. This request, at times, has been for 16 hours ofthe JOC element (mixture of ground school and sim time).
Some of you will know, although I personally keep away from utilisation of social media and forms to promote CRM Aviation, that I own and operate CRM Aviation. So, the question of why is our JOC, against possibly other offerings, better value for money - simple - the business outright owns all of it's assets. Everything is run in-house, not subbed out to partners, and the business philosophy is to offer professional quality training for good value - it's expensive enough for people wishing to enter this industry. Our JOC is also an extremely intense course designed to maximise individuals potential through positive training, yet retain the training within one day to keep the course fees realistic. We do not advertise and solely rely on offering excellent training and levels of service to ensure our business is recommended by all of those that train with us. That's circa 120 MCC students each year and circa 110 JOC students. All of CRM's instructors are extremely high calibre individuals that have all held extensive training and command experience within the airline industry.
I personally have discussed our JOC elements with the carriers mentioned above and although there were questions raised by them in the past about the hours in our JOC, we continue to see our customers placed within these carriers on a regular basis. Recently we have seen a huge upsurge in our customers securing jobs. Maybe why we’re fully booked until the end of March(4 courses inadvance)?
I do hope that this message clears up any misconception, or ambiguity out there with regards to the JOC, and I wish all of you that are currently training to join the commercial aviation industry the very best for your new careers.