Bay Flight International

[ju7ez]

I am a new PPL and am hoping to get my CPL in a year or so and was trying to self study my commercial subjects, but am not making much progress. I email a few ground courses around and found the next one starting is Bay flight international, has anyone heard any good things about their course, or should I just wait till next year and go to Nelson.
Or are their others that are good that haven't replied to me.
Thanks

[Hanz Blix]

aka hookers place is good. You sound like you need a ground course so go to the next one you can and get the subjects done.

In the good old days hooks wouldn't let the intructors teach directly from the book so they had to know what they were talking about, I'm sure that hasn't changed.

good luck


ps. with the 10th birthday in oct it would be good timing to head up that way, hooks is well known for great Pi@s ups:}

[divinesoul]

Hi

Anybody have the latest low down on bay flight International,tauranga.

me looking to join there.


cheers.

[sir.pratt]

tauranga/mt maunganui is a nice place to live/train. bayflight's fleet is (pretty much) all 152's. run pretty slick and professional - they don't stray too far from home and seem to behave themselves in the various MBZ's and uncontrolled aerodromes around the bay/waikato.

[divinesoul]

thanks sir.pratt for the reply.

Anybody got anything else to add.

cheers.

[Jnr380]

Ju7ez,

I did self-study CPL and passed, what i recommend is try the bob tait books and work through the examples and exercises and does give you such an in-depth analysis of the topic that when you sit the exam it will be easier. Steer clear of the Aviation theory Centre books. But if you dont have the head for it then yes do a course.

My $10 worth...........

jnr380

[haughtney1]

I just about got into a punch up having a few bears with Hooks over the old pitch vs power debate on approach a few years back......;)
All in all you could far worse:ok:

[mach2.5]

hey mate, nothing personal against any one in bay flight, but i have heard a few bad things about them though, but all second hand...

ask people in the airlines and ask people who works there and see what they say...

[27/09]

Jnr 380

Don't think many have heard of the Tait books over here, don't know if they are even available here.

I think the ATC books we have over here are a very different product to the ones in Australia and are very good product. I would thoroughly recommend them.


Ju7ez

Sounds like you're not in a big hurry as you say next year sometime for your commercial, why not do it locally, and save yourself the trouble and expense of going out of town.

I'm sure the guys at the New Plymouth aero club will be running a course between now and then. They do a good job from what I hear.

[ron_burgendy]

Hey ,
yeah bayflight is good as gold, i trained there, did my cpl and multi ifr, they have a good training programme, and some good instructors, the place is huge now with so many students, but hooks is a great guy and mt maunganui is a nice place to live:ok:

[Luke SkyToddler]

Can't beat it ... the place is massive compared to when I was there but it's still got the right attitude, mainly because Phill is so relatively free of ego and B/S and who's actually been there and done that.

That plus the fact that Mt Maunganui is the coolest town in NZ to live & train in. Fly all day, surf / shag / party / lay on the beach all weekend - can't do THAT in Papakura! I recommend it to anyone :ok:

[AllInstructedOut]

Hey mach 0.25

Check your facts before spreading **** about Bay Flight, don’t just listen to what your prick of a boss has to say about Hooker P he is a great guy and helped me out so much over the last two years and I wouldn’t be flying jets now if it wasn’t for him.

If you keep that up applying for jobs in Hong Kong you might find it a little hard
:= := :=

[NZFlyingKiwi]

A friend of mine spent a while there and he reckons they're pretty good.

[mach2.5]

hey, to the angry instrument guy....

i did not say anything bad and i dont know anything bad about bay flight personally, its just i have hear stories and of course there are always two people telling the story, no matter where you go...

we just dont want people to make mistakes, but as we can see, you are doing very well and flying a jet, and i oppoligise if i have offended you...

[divinesoul]

Thank you to all those who replied to my query.


Cheers.