Selection process
A few years ago BA, recruited a handful of self funding students from Oxford and Prestwick. Some of the criteria were, pass the BA selection procedure, average 85%+ in the CAA exams, good flying test results including a first time pass at the IRT, AND formal recommendation from the FTO.
To improve your chances of employment, it is important that LONG course students do well; mere attendance, and obtaining a licence will only work when jobs are a plenty.
Look at it from the employers point of view : why take on somebody who may be a training risk who might not succeed either in the sim / line training. That costs money. Why take the risk when there are so many to choose from?
Last edited by ecj; 22nd Aug 2003 at 14:15.