Aer Lingus Cadet Pilot Program

[Officer Kite]

E-mails for the unsuccessful are out, mixture of emotions as I'm happy I know for sure what happened but still upset about not getting through. I can confirm no feedback was given which only adds salt to the wounds but there you go.

Best of luck to everyone still in the process.

[reeko]

Until next year

[7ate9]

250 euro and no feedback...ridiculous. A friend of mine went to an assessment centre (not aviation related), didn't pay a penny and got a phone call explaining why she didn't get through and what she needs to work on. How can you improve if you have no idea where you went wrong?

[PPRuNeUser0207]

Hard luck everybody I know the feeling all too well!

I went thought to the next interview and I'm waiting for a response now

[Speed_Alive_V1]

How did it go Jumpseat?

To the others, I imagine you could ring FTE and ask them to send you a copy of your scores on the day. I know someone who did that last time.

[PPRuNeUser0207]

It went well, one or two tricky questions but nothing major.

I hoping I got myself across and hopefully they want me to work for them!

[almon1298]

Its very unsporting to not even offer pure data on our scores so we can make our own feedback. If we got a little copy and paste table of our pilapt scores it would be fairly straight forward to deduce that I should practice "hands" if I scored 10% on it or that I'm strong or competent on "flight director" because my score was say 88%. I understand they have a high workload and also want to protect themselves legally by not offering potentially misleading feedback but pure raw data is fair I think.

[Officer Kite]

That's true speed alive but my understanding is that stage 3 was done by FTE and they forwaded those successful to AL. The cabin crew assessments are being done by AL having no effect on FTE's ability to write a simple sentence such as "reason for decision: numerical reasoning" for example. There weren't that many at stage 3 and considering 255e was spent I think it's the least they should do. There may have been an issue on my day but I have no recollection of being told we wouldn't get feedback, I actually thought we would.

[elmore81]

Feedback is rarely offered in aviation, you'll need to get used to that.

[Fergal10]

FTE are a really nice bunch who are keen to offer help wherever possible. Unless things have changed from when I did an assessment with them recently, they will be more than happy to pull out your file and relay your scores if you call them up (despite them also saying no feedback will be given at the start of the process).

[PPRuNeUser0207]

Just to make it very clear about the next stage at AL.

No information should be released about this stage.

There is nothing you can prepare for except the interview. Best of luck

[Speed_Alive_V1]

All done and dusted now

Also, it is officially an MPL course now.

[PPRuNeUser0207]

When was your interview speed_alive and how many were in attendance.

MPL for sure, but also, any confirmation on how many cadets?

[Gear_Up2014]

Attended Wed -17 participants


Rumoured 12 spots similar to last year yet they took on 20, supposedly..


Next dates for psychological assessment, Nov 23rd to Dec 2nd, could someone confirm pls?


If above true that means notification must be provided this week..

[Speed_Alive_V1]

I won't mention specifics, Charlie is listening

There were about the right amount at the assessment to make me think it was around the 40/50 mark overall...

I've heard 12, and heard 16 places. Definitely two classes however, one in Jan one in Feb, as was mentioned to me. I don't think they will be too tied down by numbers, whomever they pick will go.

I found the interview enjoyable, and surprisingly (albeit in a good way) quite technical. The panel were very friendly.

Whens everyones hunch at when we find out? Next stage in 2 weeks, so following the previous timeframe it might be this coming Friday?

[PPRuNeUser0207]

The number 20 got trown about a bit the Tuesday I was there.

They told me the 24th and are using this week to reflect on all the interviews.
GoodLuck to all!!

[funkyt111]

There were 12 applicants on my day, 17 on another? I struggle to understand how they could have invited only 40-50 to this stage or am I missing something?

I do wonder how many people Aer Lingus will choose for the cadet scheme in total....

[PPRuNeUser0207]

Sorry I didn't make my last reply clear. I meant that there was talk of taking 20 cadets into this programme. There were 12 candidates on Tuesday 11th.

[funkyt111]

Okay. So 12 on Monday, 12 on Tuesday and 17 on Wednesday? That's 41 already...

Jumpseat, if you don't mind me asking, where did you get 20 figure from?

[Gear_Up2014]

I am starting to come to the conclusion, that first of all, what FTE stated directly at the assessments, was that they would put forward 60/70 to EI, the number of 45 is from someone who talked to someone who knew something.....it is now transpiring that 60 to 70 as outlined is the correct figure.


Second of all, EI have stated that they anticipate to select 10-12 for the courses, this is direct from EI, however the number of 20 has been thrown around by candidates on assessment days as they heard something from someone who knows something, I have not heard categorically from EI on any of the assessment days that they will select 20...


From the dates provided by EI for psychological assessment, that amounts to 12 days, so basically if we want to further speculate that would equal a candidate a day for assessment in line with number of course participants which they stated....


I think everything that has been circulated is purely speculation, but I am open for correction.