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Clarification
APOLOGY TO ST PAUL
Dear All,
I think I owe a partial apology to St Paul for being quite so personal.
Whilst what much of what I said was true it was perhaps wrong to vent the stress of my LPC so publically!!!!! (Those of you already rated will understand!)
Yours aye,
BugSpeed
Dear All,
I think I owe a partial apology to St Paul for being quite so personal.
Whilst what much of what I said was true it was perhaps wrong to vent the stress of my LPC so publically!!!!! (Those of you already rated will understand!)
Yours aye,
BugSpeed
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BugSpeed,
thought your post was spot on if not a little venemous and certainly doesn't require any apology.
I like you am a current Line Pilot with BACX and rate the Airline extremely highly. As a first job, its superb with a particularly strong training function totally geared to first MPA pilots.
St Pauls posts could be viewed by some in the company as quite offensive...for me they show how desperate people are to get that first job, which having been there 18 months ago i fully understand (it took me 9 years from starting my PPL to geting into BACX).
Having said that this thread has bemused me, as it must be the first time I've seen quite such anger towards a recruiting airline from people who are down to be interviewed by it and who don't really know anything about it. eg apparently we're ageist??? I'm 35, some FO's on the Dash are over 40. Apparently we favour Intergrated???....I'm a self improver, instructor etc so are many others on the Dash
Its a great Airline for those starting their career, please don't knock it guys cause its unjustified. Sure the more experienced guys are hacked off due to all the changes over the past 4 years but for the new starts this doesn't apply.
Finally, if as Stpaul states you guys want to find out from inside what the airline is really like then check out the detailed post i did on terms and endearment a few weeks back, which describes everything you need to know about life on the Dash. I think its under a post from FatFlyer? titled BACX conditions, or something similiar.
As for LPC stress! you BugSpeed, as professional an aviator as Lydd International Airport has ever seen!!......just don't rest your foot on the instrument panel when you're PF
thought your post was spot on if not a little venemous and certainly doesn't require any apology.
I like you am a current Line Pilot with BACX and rate the Airline extremely highly. As a first job, its superb with a particularly strong training function totally geared to first MPA pilots.
St Pauls posts could be viewed by some in the company as quite offensive...for me they show how desperate people are to get that first job, which having been there 18 months ago i fully understand (it took me 9 years from starting my PPL to geting into BACX).
Having said that this thread has bemused me, as it must be the first time I've seen quite such anger towards a recruiting airline from people who are down to be interviewed by it and who don't really know anything about it. eg apparently we're ageist??? I'm 35, some FO's on the Dash are over 40. Apparently we favour Intergrated???....I'm a self improver, instructor etc so are many others on the Dash
Its a great Airline for those starting their career, please don't knock it guys cause its unjustified. Sure the more experienced guys are hacked off due to all the changes over the past 4 years but for the new starts this doesn't apply.
Finally, if as Stpaul states you guys want to find out from inside what the airline is really like then check out the detailed post i did on terms and endearment a few weeks back, which describes everything you need to know about life on the Dash. I think its under a post from FatFlyer? titled BACX conditions, or something similiar.
As for LPC stress! you BugSpeed, as professional an aviator as Lydd International Airport has ever seen!!......just don't rest your foot on the instrument panel when you're PF
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Question on Questions
Very well done to those who have been successful. I don’t think I have been and am trying to figure out where I went wrong.
One poss (of probably many) is that whilst within the 200 max word limit my answers were too long and too laborious for the poor couple checking the millions of applications.
Could anyone who passed, please help me out be stating roughly how long their answers were.
Thanks
And for those who have got in and still whinge – want to swap places you ungrateful monkeys?
One poss (of probably many) is that whilst within the 200 max word limit my answers were too long and too laborious for the poor couple checking the millions of applications.
Could anyone who passed, please help me out be stating roughly how long their answers were.
Thanks
And for those who have got in and still whinge – want to swap places you ungrateful monkeys?
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Woof,
I don't think the length of your answers was the reason. I struggled to keep mine down to 200 words. After editing them and using the microsoft word count the shortest was 195 words! I got the e-mail saying i will be called for interview.
I agree with your comments about people sounding ungrateful - I'm incredibly grateful just to be given the oportunity to have an interview in the future. If they want to keep me hanging on then fine, it will make it even more satisfying when i do finally get the call. BA CitiExpress seem to be one of the few airlines happy to give older/modular/low hour pilots a chance to break into this industry and i feel they should be praised for that.
I'm led to believe that they open the website once a year and then use all the candidates from that for their recruiting for that coming year and therefore we may be waiting nearly a year for the call. In the meantime we can continue job hunting with the pleasant thought in mind that there will be an interview in the future (pending any horrible disasters like bird flu!!!!)
I'm sure some people are just using this forum to air frustrations and aren't really ungratefull at all, but it does sound like it and i for one think a lot of the moaning on this thread has been well out of order. I'm sure the recruitment staff are extremely busy trying to do a good job and probably get a hard enough time from their management without having to take it from us too!!!!!
Good luck to all who are waiting for the call.
I don't think the length of your answers was the reason. I struggled to keep mine down to 200 words. After editing them and using the microsoft word count the shortest was 195 words! I got the e-mail saying i will be called for interview.
I agree with your comments about people sounding ungrateful - I'm incredibly grateful just to be given the oportunity to have an interview in the future. If they want to keep me hanging on then fine, it will make it even more satisfying when i do finally get the call. BA CitiExpress seem to be one of the few airlines happy to give older/modular/low hour pilots a chance to break into this industry and i feel they should be praised for that.
I'm led to believe that they open the website once a year and then use all the candidates from that for their recruiting for that coming year and therefore we may be waiting nearly a year for the call. In the meantime we can continue job hunting with the pleasant thought in mind that there will be an interview in the future (pending any horrible disasters like bird flu!!!!)
I'm sure some people are just using this forum to air frustrations and aren't really ungratefull at all, but it does sound like it and i for one think a lot of the moaning on this thread has been well out of order. I'm sure the recruitment staff are extremely busy trying to do a good job and probably get a hard enough time from their management without having to take it from us too!!!!!
Good luck to all who are waiting for the call.
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Got the letter this morning telling me I'm In the hold pool
I get the impression it may be for a while but at least I'm in. Good luck to all still going through the process, stick at it!
Anyone know how deep the pool is?
CBK
I get the impression it may be for a while but at least I'm in. Good luck to all still going through the process, stick at it!Anyone know how deep the pool is?
CBK
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BACX HOLD POOL
Well done to all those of you who have been called forward / told you are in the hold pool.
THE FOLLOWING IS ONLY A GUIDE AND HAS NOT BEEN BACKED UP BY ANYTHING INTERNALLY WHATSOEVER
Hope thats clear enough: this is pure speculation and not from the training department
At present, it looks like all tech courses on all fleets are solidly booked until AT LEAST the end of Jan. Therefore, there maybe some courses starting in Feb or March.
As I said, this is pure speculation and subject to change either way at short notice but may be of some consolation to those of you wondering.
Yours aye,
BS
THE FOLLOWING IS ONLY A GUIDE AND HAS NOT BEEN BACKED UP BY ANYTHING INTERNALLY WHATSOEVER
Hope thats clear enough: this is pure speculation and not from the training department
At present, it looks like all tech courses on all fleets are solidly booked until AT LEAST the end of Jan. Therefore, there maybe some courses starting in Feb or March.
As I said, this is pure speculation and subject to change either way at short notice but may be of some consolation to those of you wondering.
Yours aye,
BS
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I've got the phone call today, about 4wks after getting the congrat's email.
The lady on the phone was very friendly and offered me a variety of dates for interview.
Looks like the process works like a well-oiled machine!!!
fingers crossed .. good luck all.....
The lady on the phone was very friendly and offered me a variety of dates for interview.
Looks like the process works like a well-oiled machine!!!
fingers crossed .. good luck all.....
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HR chap at Balpa EOC on Sat said the filters of MCC completed and 50 hrs in last 12 months thinned the pile down from 1300 to 440 which I found surprising, but positive, so chins up.
Good Luck T2
Good Luck T2
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Standard interview questions, give career history, what do you know about company, why do want to work for us, CRM etc.
Sim ride on BAC1-11, assessor demonstrates t/off and climb to 3000, you take over , do a few turns etc follwed by vectors to ILS.
Then you do take off, fly SID( they vary this but often from BHX or MAN) back to hold then vectored or procedural ILS.
As most of us come from intructing or newly qualified, they encourage use of flight director which is new to us.
Old style flight director. the only pitch mode is in degrees -5 to +15, there is no alt hold, there is GS when it will fly the ILS.
Roll modes are HDG, VOR/LOC, GS(both roll + pitch) and off.
Two controls on the bottom of the ADI select roll mode and pitch angle. They brief you on use of FD very well before you go in.
Sim ride on BAC1-11, assessor demonstrates t/off and climb to 3000, you take over , do a few turns etc follwed by vectors to ILS.
Then you do take off, fly SID( they vary this but often from BHX or MAN) back to hold then vectored or procedural ILS.
As most of us come from intructing or newly qualified, they encourage use of flight director which is new to us.
Old style flight director. the only pitch mode is in degrees -5 to +15, there is no alt hold, there is GS when it will fly the ILS.
Roll modes are HDG, VOR/LOC, GS(both roll + pitch) and off.
Two controls on the bottom of the ADI select roll mode and pitch angle. They brief you on use of FD very well before you go in.
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Waiting times after receiving the email
Just wondering if anyone has been waiting a particularly long time to be called for interview after receiving the email.
I've heard of up to a month somewhere but was wondering if anyone had been waiting longer than this.
Cheers.
I've heard of up to a month somewhere but was wondering if anyone had been waiting longer than this.
Cheers.