Seeking RYANAIR pilots or "soon to be's"

[Mrmoeller]

Hi all,

Just wanted to get in contact with established RYANAIR pilots or pilots recently beeing elected for the self sponsered TR sceme on the - 800.

If you are so please take the time to write to me (prefer via mail) and I'll have some questions regarding their selfsponsered TR on the -800 and so on.

Best regards

Michael

[Mr Blue Eyes]

I've applied but not heard anything. Have you applied?

[Anamorphic]

I'm told they are all booked up until Feb/March 2006 at the two schools. They don't seem to be giving interviews to low houred cadets due to this.

[Damienmk]

I've just sent an email to SAS asking for the next course dates for the self sponsored type rating. I haven't received a reply as yet. The moment I do, I'll share the response.

I'm currently in touch with a Ryanair Capt. who informs me the company is very short of pilots. If this is the case then I would have thought they would be making every effort to get people through the door, including low time guys like me.

[ravenx]

Does anyone know if there is any truth in the rumour that they are happy to take people fresh out of a training school with an "ink still wet on the paper" 737 type rating

[Man Flex]

I think that they'll probably take anyone with a licence.... for a fee.

Why do think they are so short of pilots?

[Penworth]

If they are that short of pilots, and both CAE and SAS are fully booked until Feb or March next year, I wonder why they don't use a third school at which to do the type ratings, as I believe they used to.

PW

[lharle]

I was on the phone with the recrutement department about 2 weeks ago.
He told me that they will start recruiting in november, they will call about 80 to 85 people to fill in 48 seats for 2006.
I asked him what were my chances, he said that they have about 3600 resumes on file.......

[RAT 5]

Because they can not process the number of new pilots they have at present. If they turn the tap on harder the bath will overflow.

You are still free to pay for your own type rating at any school, search the job market, have your arm torn of and hopefully have some bourbles spread in front of you, and you would still be a free agent to make your choice.

[captplaystation]

Grave shortage of training-captains as no financial or other incentive to volunteer for the hassle/stress involved in performing 25min turn-arounds with ab-initio candidates etc etc.A serious internal problem and potential growth-inhibitor that they refuse to tackle by the simple expedient of throwing money/extra days-off at people; at which stage adequate suitable talent could be identified internally.Instead they prefer to co-erce new Captains into becoming line-trainers with not much more than one year of command time(I heard a RUMOUR it was even demanded on new Capt's contracts).Great idea that,having the least experienced guys doing the line-training.I think we could/maybe should, start a whole new thread on that gem of an idea.

[portofino]

Ryanair will be using a third school starting in early 2006...i don't have the name since they didn't want to tell me.

Be aware that some of the recent recruits have been waiting almost 4 months after the end of the type rating course before starting on line due to training capt shortage...that's something to think about when taking the loan for the B738 TQ.

they do seem to be hiring experienced chaps and cadets...about 50/50 per course.

cheers

[flighttime2.0]

damienmk

Your information on Ryanair is only true to a certain extent, Ryanair are only short of captains, completely full to the roof with cadets till the middle of 2006. This is the reason the schools are not replying to your applications. This year alone 3000 applied to cae in amsterdam for a position with Ryanair and out of the 3000 120 pilots have been trained so that will give you an indication of the numbers were talking about now ! flighttime2.0

[A320rider]

it let me presume that the B737 is not more very attractive, when I see the number of pilots trained by companies having the B737...

why people don't look for the Airbus?
3500 applicants for 70 new recruits, what s are the chance to be hired? 1:50.
they can fill up 2 class of 25 chaps, ask you to pay for the selection process(350 euro?), then take only 1 lucky guy.

then they complain there is a shortage of captain...!!!

[papazulu]

Who got evaluated on MCC basis?

Hope this question won't take anyone off-topic but I wonder how may of you being in the FR evaluation process right now have been picked after taking MCC course at SAS. Swedish advertise FR's B738 SSTR and offers "...MCC course at competitive prices, using it as a free-of-charge evaluation tool..."for those who still don't have it done.
Well I am one of "those" but there are few blind spots and I wish to hear from anyone experience to make up my mind. Someone said the are taking 50/50 between experienced pilots and low hrs chaps so I wonder if doing the MCC with them can REALLY help or TT weights more when it's time to apply for the TR, regardless of where you took your MCC.

Take care

PZ

[A320rider]

oh, I see now,
airlines try to make some ****ty businees with MCC schools, "we pick only graduated MCC students from our school, if you do your MCC in a non approved school, there is no way to fly with us"

I bet in a few months, this is what we are going to see...