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Silly question perhaps but why do they specify you need a PPL before hand?
Or perhaps they want someone with proven hands on flying skills?
Or maybe to weedle the number of applicants down (though that looks unlikely looking at the steady decreasing number that they recieve).
I'd say the requirement of a driving licence is much more questionable, though obviously they send you on driving missions during the training phase.
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I have a mock skills test this weekend, and all going well, a few hours brush up. Next weekend, skills test. Cutting it a little fine if I want to be PPL qualified by 31st.....to apply or not to apply....which tick to put in which box....so frustrating!
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Maybe because they want people who already have a proven interest in flying?
Or perhaps they want someone with proven hands on flying skills?
Or perhaps they want someone with proven hands on flying skills?
They would probably receive more applicants were they drop this requirement, allowing them more choice from a wider and more varied spectrum of prospective airline pilots.
Sounds like a good scheme nonetheless.
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If you have shown you are willing to spend your money and your time on working towards a pilot career for yourself it shows you are motivated and clearly know what you want. That motivation and willingness to spend own money on it provides a bit of security for Highland when they take you on.
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Consider: Regardless of how close it *might* be - PILAPT testing ain't flying. 30-40min flying is A) Cheaper than PILAPT (on a small scale) B) actually shows up what your flying is like. At the end of the day play enough computer games and you can get through pilapt testing fairly unscathed...but there's no substitute for flying.
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It raises an interesting argument in my eyes regarding the suitability of PILAPT testing etc versus hands on flying experience. Are they suggesting perhaps the tests used by OAA, Cabair etc are not up to scratch?
If you started as a Fugly without a PPL, the airline would risk spending several thousand pounds getting a cadet halfway through his training, only for the cadet to discover he doesn't really like flying or isn't any good at it. It goes without saying that if you start with a license, thats another 7K the company doesn't have to spend on you...
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I think it's a good idea to have a PPL requirement, shows that the applicant is commited and is already into flying. Much less risk. Would be interesting to see the amount of applicants to the big FTOs if they were to have a similar requirement. But then again if you go integrated you don't even get a PPL, so I guess it wouldn't work.
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My question is:
on the application it ask for the breakdown of hours, isn't P1 the same as solo are are they wanting to know the number of hours flying P1 after license issue?
secondly, what details do they need for exams passed?
ta
on the application it ask for the breakdown of hours, isn't P1 the same as solo are are they wanting to know the number of hours flying P1 after license issue?
secondly, what details do they need for exams passed?
ta
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From what i can remember the details for the exams passed are just what grade/exam/mark you got.
A PPL comes in handy from the moment you start. We sometimes have the opportunity to fly crew around before they go off on their day's flying (Becky). Also apart from the actual flying involved with a PPL there is the theory, TAFs, METARs, general airlaw. It comes in handy knowing how to decode them when one the the Fisheries 406s ring up on the Satphone from 60N14W asking what the Stornoway TAF is.
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A PPL comes in handy from the moment you start. We sometimes have the opportunity to fly crew around before they go off on their day's flying (Becky). Also apart from the actual flying involved with a PPL there is the theory, TAFs, METARs, general airlaw. It comes in handy knowing how to decode them when one the the Fisheries 406s ring up on the Satphone from 60N14W asking what the Stornoway TAF is.
Ewan
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on the application it ask for the breakdown of hours, isn't P1 the same as solo are are they wanting to know the number of hours flying P1 after license issue?
I think it comes from one of the early Atlantic cadets being called something rhyming with 'trucking ugly'.
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