Wizzair open day Riga October 2014
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Wizzair open day Riga October 2014
Open day 8/10/2014 in Riga
Pilots
Only for Lithuanian or Latvian passport holders!
Good luck for the ones who match the criteria
Pilots
Only for Lithuanian or Latvian passport holders!
Good luck for the ones who match the criteria
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Yes it does state that - very clearly....
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WHO: PILOTS WHO MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
All candidates must hold a Lithuanian or Latvian passport.
All pilots that have unrestricted right to live and work in the European Union and have a current and Valid JAR/EASA (or National equivalent) AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT'S LICENCE (or), COMMERCIAL PILOT'S LICENCE with a valid MPA-IR and passes in all ATPL subjects, and at least the minimum flying hours in the following table are welcome to join Wizz Air’s growing team.
All candidates must hold a Lithuanian or Latvian passport.
All pilots that have unrestricted right to live and work in the European Union and have a current and Valid JAR/EASA (or National equivalent) AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT'S LICENCE (or), COMMERCIAL PILOT'S LICENCE with a valid MPA-IR and passes in all ATPL subjects, and at least the minimum flying hours in the following table are welcome to join Wizz Air’s growing team.
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Is 500 requirement for power driven aircraft or any aircraft? Can gliders be counted? Anyway they are certified GA aircraft... and 30 hours counts even for CPL requirements
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Only for Lithuanian or Latvian passport holders!
It's nice to know, but is this allowed within the EU? I would have thought a more legal way of discriminating in this way would be to just stipulate the language requirement like the rest of continental Europe.
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WHO: PILOTS WHO MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Speaking Latvian or Lithuanian will be an advantage
All pilots that have unrestricted right to live and work in the European Union and have a current and Valid JAR/EASA (or National equivalent) AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT'S LICENCE (or), COMMERCIAL PILOT'S LICENCE with a valid MPA-IR and passes in all ATPL subjects, and at least 1000 flying hours are welcome to join Wizz Air’s growing team
Speaking Latvian or Lithuanian will be an advantage
All pilots that have unrestricted right to live and work in the European Union and have a current and Valid JAR/EASA (or National equivalent) AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT'S LICENCE (or), COMMERCIAL PILOT'S LICENCE with a valid MPA-IR and passes in all ATPL subjects, and at least 1000 flying hours are welcome to join Wizz Air’s growing team
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Actually they put it at the same time they removed the LT/LS Passport thing. So if someone had arranged tockets to there, they were actually arranging tickets back home 
I am beginning to think that with the online applocation form they are just surveying the market. Now that they know that over the Baltic states there are quite a few pilots with experience they just rise the numbers.
I am beginning to think that with the online applocation form they are just surveying the market. Now that they know that over the Baltic states there are quite a few pilots with experience they just rise the numbers.
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And another Low Houred pilot job gone. Getting less and less chances to get a job anywhere 
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First it was 200 hrs ACTUAL and JOC. Now 1000 hrs as min. Where should a beginner get those hrs if we never get any chance anywhere else?
.First it was 200 hrs ACTUAL and JOC. Now 1000 hrs as min. Where should a beginner get those hrs if we never get any chance anywhere else?
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And I believe will remain so... Unfortunately for us, low hour pilots. Wizz Air is planning to contract an ATO to train their own ab-initio pilots. Most probably will be a self-funded program. 
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If you do not have more than 500 hours JAR 25 jet time or ME turbo-prop time, or more than 1000 hours MEP time, then you should apply for Cadet non type rated (regardless of other experience).
1000H MEP is for experienced First Officer.
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It will most probably be like it was in Bucharest. Company presentation to all participants (history, future prospects, bases, salary, min requirements etc) and thereafter all participants got a very short interview (your name and if you meet all minimum requirements). If you got all minimum requirements (they strictly follow their minimum req!!!) you were invited to complete a pilot data sheet and gave it back to them. If you didn't meet all min you were told to apply as soon as you got all min req completed and inform them via e-mail.
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Not at the Open Day. All they want is to prospect the market and to collect data sheets from suitable candidates. After a time they will decide if you will get an invitation for an interview in Budapest.
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Another question, guys.. in the minimum requirements for the open day, they wrote: "COMMERCIAL PILOT'S LICENCE with a valid MPA-IR and passes in all ATPL subjects, and at least 1000 flying hours are welcome to join Wizz Air’s growing team" I have a CPL with IR/ME (SP) with more than 1000 hrs total time and all other reqs... they want a MPA rating on the licence or is enough the basic ME/IR (SP)??
