The CTC Wings (Cadets) Thread - Part 2.
you dont need the internet to fill out a plog
least you dont have to live in dey street. no internet there, just grey 10'x5' prison cells.
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Beak,
I love your bluntness. Amazing.
Why don't we set up some kind of special appeal?. If anyone has any old DVDs/CDs that they no longer want/need to get rid of, maybe they could send them to the deprived cadets in New Zealand?
Please send all your unwanted Spank Bank material to...
'Porn for Pilots'
CTC Training Centre
Hamilton Airport
Hamilton
New Zealand.
Just £2.95 (P&P) a month can help alleviate the stress and anguish of a deprived trainee pilot. Do something good today. Give porn.
I love your bluntness. Amazing.
Why don't we set up some kind of special appeal?. If anyone has any old DVDs/CDs that they no longer want/need to get rid of, maybe they could send them to the deprived cadets in New Zealand?
Please send all your unwanted Spank Bank material to...
'Porn for Pilots'
CTC Training Centre
Hamilton Airport
Hamilton
New Zealand.
Just £2.95 (P&P) a month can help alleviate the stress and anguish of a deprived trainee pilot. Do something good today. Give porn.
You see. They keep coming. The Wannabe Zombie army is inexhaustible and unrelenting.
You can tell them there are no jobs. You can tell them that instead of being treated like a customer spending £70k they will be treated like an inmate. You can tell them that the job is no longer worth the time, money and risk. And still they come. Relentless. Uninformed. Intent.
It is distrurbing.
On the topic, I'd ignore whoever wrote this hysterical memo. If they suspended you from training for breaching an internet use policy which you hadn''t signed up to via contract terms and conditions (which you haven't) then you could sue them for costs and distress and to be put back into the position you would otherwise have been in. Whoever wrote this thinks he's a headmaster running a school. Where in fact he's a manager selling a product to a customer. He needs a slap in the face (metaphorically).
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You can tell them there are no jobs. You can tell them that instead of being treated like a customer spending £70k they will be treated like an inmate. You can tell them that the job is no longer worth the time, money and risk. And still they come. Relentless. Uninformed. Intent.
It is distrurbing.
On the topic, I'd ignore whoever wrote this hysterical memo. If they suspended you from training for breaching an internet use policy which you hadn''t signed up to via contract terms and conditions (which you haven't) then you could sue them for costs and distress and to be put back into the position you would otherwise have been in. Whoever wrote this thinks he's a headmaster running a school. Where in fact he's a manager selling a product to a customer. He needs a slap in the face (metaphorically).
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Kirsten299, I see you did aeronautical engineering at glasgow uni.....im starting there in september, a purposeful way to pass 4/5 years to see where this industry is heading before i even think about going to the likes of CTC - the money is silly right now.
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So CTC want you to consider yourself as an employee. Despite the fact you pay a heck of a lot of money to "work" there!! But if you are to be treated like an employee are you then not eligible for certain employee rights? Like proper union representation?? Proper Balpa membership might have helped some of the previous EZY cadets out last summer!!!!
Jeez, what ever happened to just having a quiet word. "Lay off downloading the porn, if you carry on you will go blind and lose your medical." Always better received than "if you even so much as catch a glimpse of some b00bs on-line and you are fired!!!!!!"
Jeez, what ever happened to just having a quiet word. "Lay off downloading the porn, if you carry on you will go blind and lose your medical." Always better received than "if you even so much as catch a glimpse of some b00bs on-line and you are fired!!!!!!"
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WWW just because there're no jobs right now doesn't mean there won't be jobs in two years when cadets who start training now will finish training. Now I know this is a biased thing to say but Lee Woodward said at the CTC open day that BA were expected to need new 400 pilots in 2011 which sounds like good timing if you sign up now. And before anyone decides to repeat that I've said it's a biased thing for Lee Woodward to say remember I've told you it's a biased thing to say!
And to anyone who says they're going to wait and see what happens to the industry over the next few years remember the cadets coming out today went in when the industry was good and look what happened in two years...
Also it has been said before, "timing is luck!"
And to anyone who says they're going to wait and see what happens to the industry over the next few years remember the cadets coming out today went in when the industry was good and look what happened in two years...
Also it has been said before, "timing is luck!"
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Hmm, flying training salesman predicts surging future demand for pilots - you could blow me down with a feather.
Lee Woodward wants you to spend your money. Nothing more.
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Lee Woodward wants you to spend your money. Nothing more.
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He also probably failed to mention that even if this outrageous prediction does occur, they will have at least 400 in the holding pool anyway.
It's currently at around a hundred with 20 cadets per month being added. PLUS the ATP fools.
Don't buy it! Literally.
EK
It's currently at around a hundred with 20 cadets per month being added. PLUS the ATP fools.
Don't buy it! Literally.
EK
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Lee Woodward said at the CTC open day that BA were expected to need new 400 pilots in 2011 which sounds like good timing if you sign up now
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Hi guys! I'm new here!! Sorry for same maeesage on the other CTC post, but i don't know which is right for my post.. 
Anyone has applied to ctc wing atp 2 part?? i've just received the mail for apply at this!!
Anyone know when there is the next 2 part selection? and who will go there? I don't have still the date.(it' possible they call me before and of July?)
If some people have done already this part,can give me some suggestion or tell me what i can expect in this second selection?I'm really worried!!
PS:
can be a good way to get the first job??
Thx at all guys!!
Anyone has applied to ctc wing atp 2 part?? i've just received the mail for apply at this!!
Anyone know when there is the next 2 part selection? and who will go there? I don't have still the date.(it' possible they call me before and of July?)
If some people have done already this part,can give me some suggestion or tell me what i can expect in this second selection?I'm really worried!!
PS:
can be a good way to get the first job??
Thx at all guys!!
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This isn't a snipe, but before you do anything with CTC, you should try to improve your english, at the minute, it is likely that you wouldnt proceed as you english isnt quite up to scratch.
CTC had an excellent reputation for starting the careers of many pilots however these days there is very little chacne of achieving a job within the next three years...
If you get selected at the minute, you would come out after 2 years with a fATPL, a 100,000+ loan, and no job... sorry, but that is how it is...
Here's an idea, come over here to britain, do a degree at one of our universities which will take you 3 years, you'll come out with a degree and a total grasp of english, and youd be in a much better situation to assess which FTO to go to
CTC had an excellent reputation for starting the careers of many pilots however these days there is very little chacne of achieving a job within the next three years...
If you get selected at the minute, you would come out after 2 years with a fATPL, a 100,000+ loan, and no job... sorry, but that is how it is...
Here's an idea, come over here to britain, do a degree at one of our universities which will take you 3 years, you'll come out with a degree and a total grasp of english, and youd be in a much better situation to assess which FTO to go to
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yes i know that and i know also it's not easy find any jobs now. But ehy here you need try try and retray again even if you fail!! If you wait no any jobs come to find you 
For the english can't be really a problem cuz my problem is only with grammar, no problem about speaking,listening or read and i can practise that with an English school.
Never give up on this career!
But thx for your suggestion!
For the english can't be really a problem cuz my problem is only with grammar, no problem about speaking,listening or read and i can practise that with an English school.
Never give up on this career!
But thx for your suggestion!
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Lee Woodward said at the CTC open day that BA were expected to need new 400 pilots in 2011 which sounds like good timing if you sign up now
I think unfortuantly the 'no jobs for 2 or 3 years' is probably the reality.
If you get selected then be prepared to fund 2 or 3 years in a hold pool waiting for a job
EvelcyclopS - I'd urge reticence in giving advice until you've got a little more experience of the industry. At this moment in time easyJets only expansion is in Italy for its successful base in Milan and its new base in Rome opening in November. alex1982 would probably be viewed as leagues ahead of you in terms of cadet pilot recruitment within easyJet - unless your Italian is as good as his English...
Ryanair is much the same. Monolingualism is starting to be a real weakness now that we have pan-European airlines. You think the passengers on tonights Rome - Madrid want to hear a plummy British airline voice speaking in a language they don't understand?
Right - back to thread topic.
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Ryanair is much the same. Monolingualism is starting to be a real weakness now that we have pan-European airlines. You think the passengers on tonights Rome - Madrid want to hear a plummy British airline voice speaking in a language they don't understand?
Right - back to thread topic.
WWW
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Well, if I believe what I read I'm going to wait ages before "maybe" starting my line training.
Just to get a rough idea, how much should I expect for my licences renewal? I understood it has to be done once a year... Can anyone enlight me on this point.
Thanks
Just to get a rough idea, how much should I expect for my licences renewal? I understood it has to be done once a year... Can anyone enlight me on this point.
Thanks