Astreus - Any Good
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Astraeus, well! I started the course, but was a little let down, and a little out of pocket. I'm sure Astraeus know who I am,as I was a wide body skipper with 14,000 hours.
But not to be bitter, I will say that I was very impressed with the camaradrie within the company, and how everybody mucked in, throughout the various departments.
The short time that I was there, embrolied on the type rating course was fun. On the 'whole' a good bunch of people.
In this industry you must be careful, and get everything in writing, I have learnt my lesson. But I am sure that if you secure a position with them, you will enjoy the flying, and the general spirit within. I wish them no ill feeling, life is toooooo short.
I would still recommend them, with the above caveats.
But not to be bitter, I will say that I was very impressed with the camaradrie within the company, and how everybody mucked in, throughout the various departments.
The short time that I was there, embrolied on the type rating course was fun. On the 'whole' a good bunch of people.
In this industry you must be careful, and get everything in writing, I have learnt my lesson. But I am sure that if you secure a position with them, you will enjoy the flying, and the general spirit within. I wish them no ill feeling, life is toooooo short.
I would still recommend them, with the above caveats.
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For those of you who are aware of the previous PPRuNe Cadet Type Rating Scheme where, with assistance from the PPRuNe Fund, many of us here on PPRuNe and Astraeus, we type rated 5 low houred fATPLs and they were all subsequently employed by Astraeus and are all now very experienced F/O's on the B737 with well over 1500 hours on type, then you may be interested in the next scheme.
As long as you aren't too sceptical, rabidly against this type of scheme or just totally negative, then have a read of this thread: ***New Pprune Cadet Type Rating Course***
Who knows, if you are up to it and can start by the 21st of January (exactly two weeks from today!!!) then why not apply?
As long as you aren't too sceptical, rabidly against this type of scheme or just totally negative, then have a read of this thread: ***New Pprune Cadet Type Rating Course***
Who knows, if you are up to it and can start by the 21st of January (exactly two weeks from today!!!) then why not apply?
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As I'm sure you are now all aware, the Pprune Fund and Astraeus are again offering a type rating with the possibility of later employment, as mentioned in Danny's post above. This is unlikely to become a frequent opportunity! (And it was as unexpected to me as I've no doubt it was to you!)
We are also offering the opporunity of free or subsidized groundschool courses as per the sticky on the Wannabes - Professional Flight Training forum. This, we hope, will become a frequent and regular offer from the Pprune Fund.
These two schemes are being provided from a very small capital base, though we expect that to rise substantially over the years as successful graduates refund the Pprune Fund from their salaries. I reckon that's not a bad effort at all, and should be welcomed. As for salapilot's ideas of helping those at or near fATPL graduation with the practical stuff of finding a job, I think there's some merit in this and I'm sure we'll look further into it. As for all these schemes that we run, they must be self-funding in the long term by refunds from successful candidates' eventual salaries, so that we can continue to help Wannabes into the future.
We'd love to offer cadetships for ab-initio students, but unless someone's got a very rich sugar daddy waiting to invest in such a scheme, we are very unlikely ever to be able to afford such a thing - but who knows?
Sorry to hijack the Astraeus thread!
Scroggs
We are also offering the opporunity of free or subsidized groundschool courses as per the sticky on the Wannabes - Professional Flight Training forum. This, we hope, will become a frequent and regular offer from the Pprune Fund.
These two schemes are being provided from a very small capital base, though we expect that to rise substantially over the years as successful graduates refund the Pprune Fund from their salaries. I reckon that's not a bad effort at all, and should be welcomed. As for salapilot's ideas of helping those at or near fATPL graduation with the practical stuff of finding a job, I think there's some merit in this and I'm sure we'll look further into it. As for all these schemes that we run, they must be self-funding in the long term by refunds from successful candidates' eventual salaries, so that we can continue to help Wannabes into the future.
We'd love to offer cadetships for ab-initio students, but unless someone's got a very rich sugar daddy waiting to invest in such a scheme, we are very unlikely ever to be able to afford such a thing - but who knows?
Sorry to hijack the Astraeus thread!
Scroggs
