NetJets Ab Initio & Cadet issues

[south coast]

Hawker, dont they also have to recover the training costs, ie. your flight training at Oxford that Nj has paid for?

[theWings]

not playing the game

I get your general point hawkerpilot, though I think you are bending the numbers a little...

But what about those of us who actually want to stay in GA? I agree that the NJE/OAT scheme has its faults (were I back in the position to, I wouldn't apply), but perhaps some of the people it is aimed at are thinking beyond "GA as a stepping stone to the airlines"? The long view?

[erikv]

hawker,

maybe it's my rose-tinted glasses, but didn't you just forget to account for the ab-initio bit of the training?

So 100.000 euros to be paid retroactively for an effective start of a career in aviation? I know plenty of guys coughing up 100.000 up front for a CPL, frozen ATPL and ME-IR only...

Erik

[Smeagel]

Originally Posted by Creamer

Personally I think that this is a very good scheme........

The problem is Creamer that it will go the same way as most things at Netjets. You know how you go to the theatre? The scenery on stage is fantastic, the cast (crew) are giving it their all to make it look like the programme (sales catalogue) describes. From the correct perspective it all looks convincing.
Then you get this irresistible urge to go to the toilet. You creep across your row to the aisle apologising to everyone and when you get to the aisle at the side of the auditorium you can see that scenery is made of papier mache and in the wings is a prompter with the company script calling out to the cast/crew, telling them what to say. Lots of lights, mirrors, smoke and glitter.
Most of the cast/crew are fantastic people who do their best but it's the others selling the tickets and counting the money in the box office that let them down.

[theWings]

Yawn!

Oh come on Smeagel, this is getting so

You may, in the end be correct, and I accept you know much more about NJE than the rest of us. But you can't see into future and so you just can not declare with any authority that this scheme is going to be a failure. So don't do it.

I can imagine that performance at the theatre. But this time we don't go to the loo, we just sit through an endless loop of the same scene and the same script. That's us watching you, that is.

[Smeagel]

That's us watching you, that is.

Mary Whitehouse Experience

And see you not wanting to be warned about getting into something you'll regret. That's you that is. That's your mum *

You're right Mr Wings. I should mind my own business. I should just sit back and watch everyone sign on the dotted line and then say "I could have warned you".

To continue the theme though this place (PPRuNe) is just like watching television. If something appears on your TV screen that you don't want to watch you can change channel or select 'off'. In here there are other threads to read or the 'X' in the top, right corner.

Go on, click it. You know you'll feel better






*Apologies to those either too young or without access to UK TV not to understand this.