BA Future Pilot Programme (FPP)(Merged)
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Assessment fees
Other FTOs do not charge for their assessments. You just have to get yourself there. It is not up to BA to asses your suitability for ab-initio training. It is up to the FTO to ensure that only those who show the aptitude and ability to make it through the course, are eligible to attend (and pay). This especially the case when FTO offer 'skills guarentees' to refund the money that has not yet been spent should you fail (for reasons other than putting in 110%). It is unto BA or any other airline running a scheme to see if your face fits after the FTO has recommended you for training.
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Not sure if invites are still going out, I went through OAA and they confirmed they would inform us all by today as to who had been successful with Stage 2 - Day 1 (Aptitude tests). The reason for this is that BA need to have all the names by end of October so OAA need to complete Stage 2 - Day 2 (team work/interviews) in the next couple of weeks. Stage 3 is interviews with BA directly.
I would expect all FTOs are operating to the same timelines so I'd get in touch with FTE if I were you. Sorry.
I would expect all FTOs are operating to the same timelines so I'd get in touch with FTE if I were you. Sorry.
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If you have completed Stage 2 - Day 1 with OAA then that's what I think we should be expecting as it's been brought forward from the 13th.
If you've gone with another FTO then I don't know I'm afraid, but expect those sorts of timelines. If you haven't heard from the FTO at all then I'd probably get in touch with them directly, but all I know is what OAA informed us during Stage 2 - Day 1, I cannot comment on anything else from other FTOs.
If you've gone with another FTO then I don't know I'm afraid, but expect those sorts of timelines. If you haven't heard from the FTO at all then I'd probably get in touch with them directly, but all I know is what OAA informed us during Stage 2 - Day 1, I cannot comment on anything else from other FTOs.
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Does anyone know for fact or as close to fact as possible how cadets are filtered through from Stage 2 Day 1 (compass) to Day 2 (group/interviews)?
Is it the top X amount of people get put through or everyone that achieves a certain pass mark? Or a combination of the top X amount of people getting over a certain pass mark?
Is it the top X amount of people get put through or everyone that achieves a certain pass mark? Or a combination of the top X amount of people getting over a certain pass mark?
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Ok thanks. So going on your theory if you got through to day 2 your mark would have been relatively high compared to all the day 1 applicants? Just trying to work out if getting through to day 2 means that most people will have similar marks and therefore getting through to stage 3 will be mostly dependant on One scoring well on day 2 or will there be people walking in on day 2 already at a distinct advantage from a significantly high mark from day 1? Lol
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At the risk of announcing myself as an idiot .... check your junk email folders. I've been solely using my iPhone for two weeks, which is only set up to view the inbox. Suddenly realised i should be more thorough and logged on through the internet. An invite from CTC had been sitting in the junk folder for a few days. A little odd given previous correspondence got through just fine.
Not my finest moment, but after hitting refresh 1000's of times during October, a little relieved!
Not my finest moment, but after hitting refresh 1000's of times during October, a little relieved!
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FPP via FTE
I've been invited for testing for the the FPP via FTE. I'm Irish and need to bring copies of my academic qualifications, and certification of equivalence for non-UK academic systems. Does anyone know where i can find a certificate of equivalence??? Also where do you get proof of your right to work a 37.5 hours week in the UK? Thanks folks!
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Who's going to answer that little gem?
I Will - read your invite properly, read the website properly, read this forum properly. All your answers shall reveal themselves.Wow, I sounds like a grumpy old man!!
I Will - read your invite properly, read the website properly, read this forum properly. All your answers shall reveal themselves.Wow, I sounds like a grumpy old man!!
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hey guys i have been reading this thread for a while now, i submitted my application on the 26/08/11 to ctc and still hadnt heard back so i have just spoken to the selection centre and they have told me that they have still not even looked at my application yet! i get the impression they are making their way through the list backwards for some reason and that i should hear back by the end of the month, i would have thought my stats were good enough to get an interview. anyone who has been invited to the ctc selection centre when did you guys apply?
my stats:
on course for first in physics at one of the top 2 universities in the country
AAAAAA at a level including 3 sciences maths and F maths
6A* & 4A GCSE
memberof UAS & ccf at school
1st solo on 16th birthday with 35 hours so far
D of E and sports etc...
my stats:
on course for first in physics at one of the top 2 universities in the country
AAAAAA at a level including 3 sciences maths and F maths
6A* & 4A GCSE
memberof UAS & ccf at school
1st solo on 16th birthday with 35 hours so far
D of E and sports etc...
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I wouldn't be too concerned by your academics or the rest of your stats Swatson, the order they go through applications is possibly totally random. Although I did hear a rumour that anyone who studied at Cambridge is automatically disqualified for losing the boat race this year.... may come down to what shade of blue you are!
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dave2423 - was referring to the Irish question :P
SWATSON - a very impressive/intimidating group of stats. 6 A's at A-level is just insane!! Considering courses start early next year, are you honestly going to jepardise your degree that close to finishing? I suppose that's a decision you'll make at the end if you were successful!!
Either way, you stats have certainly knocked me from my high-horse!!
Good Luck!
SWATSON - a very impressive/intimidating group of stats. 6 A's at A-level is just insane!! Considering courses start early next year, are you honestly going to jepardise your degree that close to finishing? I suppose that's a decision you'll make at the end if you were successful!!
Either way, you stats have certainly knocked me from my high-horse!!
Good Luck!
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thanks guys for your comments, my course doesn't finish for another year and i have always wanted to be a pilot for as long as i can remember. i applied to this process to see if i could make it, and i was wondering since BA will still be running this course in 4 years time whether they could defer my application for a year if i was successful?
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Swatson you swat!!!
Good Lord, Swatson my friend, you shouldn't have mentioned you had six 'A' levels on your application: as Roger's already suggested, they're gonna think you're as bonkers as me!! 
Seriously, that's most commendable and (noting your age) I hope you don't think I'm condescending when I say that your parents should be proud! Well done, sir!
I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that unless you say something totally barking during your interview like admitting that you're me when they ask you to say something shocking, then there are now only 399 vacancies left on the FPP.
In fact, the only problem I can foresee is BA wondering if they're going to be able to hang onto you with a sterling CV like that. No disrespect to any fliers reading this, but I'm sure even they'd agree that bussing a ship load of passengers round the Globe for the next 30 or 40 years isn't going to hold your attention for long (you obviously enjoy a challenge!) despite the promise of training or management. Don't you think you should be applying to NASA instead?
Incidentally, I hope you didn't feel the need to 'come out' in response to that diatribe of mine - the last one I mean
- apart from a desire to retain the title of most bizarre post, I wrote it because in a previous existence, I HAD to drive a desk for a spell in recruitment and was surprised to read umpteen applications from undergraduates who were offering 2:1 degrees in core subjects such as Chemistry and Biology but couldn't include Physics or Maths at 'A' level on their educational C.V. which surprised me. Only average marks attained in both subjects at GCSE to boot! Most unusual. And if the stats are to be believed, a larger than anticipated proportion of applications from undergraduates offering top grades in these subjects would be of the fairer sex - perhaps you are yourself? Not that it matters, of course. Credit where credit's due.
Oh, and before I go - and I promise I will shutup after this - there will be the inevitable detractors out there thinking smug thoughts about 'A' levels etc. being easier than they used to be, no doubt from my age group or older. But let me tell you this boys and girls, what they forget to mention with their selective memorys is that in days of yore, you were only obliged to answer say five from a total of eight questions - instructions on the frontispiece of the exam paper bearing the legend: "no credit will be gained from answering surplus questions...." or words to that effect. Added to that, were the 'bankers' , questions that came up repetitively year in, year out and I've lost count of the number of tutors who admit to doing some last minute cramming the night before to find that, joy of joys, the very topic of that perfunctory exercise, appeared most fortuitously on that morning's paper!! They even used to give credit for drawing a diagram of a dodgey bunsen burner as part of the answer to a Chemistry question! Going further back, I believe, when 'A' levels were called something else, there wasn't even a time limit set in which to finish the paper. Last one out lock up!! Perhaps, the most useful weapon in the detractors armoury (and here I agree they have a point), is in the form of the term 'moderate' which is regularly, and unfairly I feel, bandied about. However, with clever chaps like you about, Swatson, it's seldom implemented. Lecture over. Good luck with your airline career!! Rhcriad.
Seriously, that's most commendable and (noting your age) I hope you don't think I'm condescending when I say that your parents should be proud! Well done, sir!
I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that unless you say something totally barking during your interview like admitting that you're me when they ask you to say something shocking, then there are now only 399 vacancies left on the FPP.
In fact, the only problem I can foresee is BA wondering if they're going to be able to hang onto you with a sterling CV like that. No disrespect to any fliers reading this, but I'm sure even they'd agree that bussing a ship load of passengers round the Globe for the next 30 or 40 years isn't going to hold your attention for long (you obviously enjoy a challenge!) despite the promise of training or management. Don't you think you should be applying to NASA instead?
Incidentally, I hope you didn't feel the need to 'come out' in response to that diatribe of mine - the last one I mean
- apart from a desire to retain the title of most bizarre post, I wrote it because in a previous existence, I HAD to drive a desk for a spell in recruitment and was surprised to read umpteen applications from undergraduates who were offering 2:1 degrees in core subjects such as Chemistry and Biology but couldn't include Physics or Maths at 'A' level on their educational C.V. which surprised me. Only average marks attained in both subjects at GCSE to boot! Most unusual. And if the stats are to be believed, a larger than anticipated proportion of applications from undergraduates offering top grades in these subjects would be of the fairer sex - perhaps you are yourself? Not that it matters, of course. Credit where credit's due.Oh, and before I go - and I promise I will shutup after this - there will be the inevitable detractors out there thinking smug thoughts about 'A' levels etc. being easier than they used to be, no doubt from my age group or older. But let me tell you this boys and girls, what they forget to mention with their selective memorys is that in days of yore, you were only obliged to answer say five from a total of eight questions - instructions on the frontispiece of the exam paper bearing the legend: "no credit will be gained from answering surplus questions...." or words to that effect. Added to that, were the 'bankers' , questions that came up repetitively year in, year out and I've lost count of the number of tutors who admit to doing some last minute cramming the night before to find that, joy of joys, the very topic of that perfunctory exercise, appeared most fortuitously on that morning's paper!! They even used to give credit for drawing a diagram of a dodgey bunsen burner as part of the answer to a Chemistry question! Going further back, I believe, when 'A' levels were called something else, there wasn't even a time limit set in which to finish the paper. Last one out lock up!! Perhaps, the most useful weapon in the detractors armoury (and here I agree they have a point), is in the form of the term 'moderate' which is regularly, and unfairly I feel, bandied about. However, with clever chaps like you about, Swatson, it's seldom implemented. Lecture over. Good luck with your airline career!! Rhcriad.
Last edited by Rhcriad Bsranon; 11th Oct 2011 at 21:19.