Avoid this one like the plague!!!!!!
 

It would seem that the boss at EPTA has really put the icing on the cake now. His latest move was to deny a past student a reference for a major airline........ just to state that he studied at Bournemouth. Trying to prevent your students from getting jobs that they have paid so much for........... It's disgusting. If you want to pay for a type rating, do it privately. You dont need a middle-man ripping you off along the way.

so the deadline of 24/9/04 approaches - has anyone applied? or know anyone that has applied - or is this that dodgy a deal noone as bothered? or is the 22K puttin people off ?

Just read this posting.

I have it on good authority that this scheme is nothing to do with Flyjet and they already have a number of applicants with hours on type waiting in the wings.

Caution...

Of course they do, 120 MyTravel Guys and Gals, most current, rated and experienced.

I have moments of being an idealist (and in total agreement with Scroggs and others about this whole SSTR malarky...as a wannabe it makes me slightly angry and worried at the same time) and moments when I picture myself as a realist in a few years time...if I have financial commitments (house, partner, whatever) and the opportunity of a particularly attractive SSTR package presents itself...and I could afford it (to get into a job which will pay the bills/debst)...would I do it? It's easy to say I'd stick by my principles and not but I can't help thinking that, if the circumstances were right and I had others to support, I'd be tempted.

Don't get me wrong - the idea of PAYING for the privelage of being assessed makes me somewhat furious...as does the whole SSTR philosophy...but like I say, if a young pilot finds him/herself really feeling the financial burden, has a young child or two and elects to go down the SSTR route to fastrack his/her career...could I really blame them? I suppose it's easy to be strongly anti-SSTR when you're in a job or not at this stage yet (like myself)...and therein probably lies the problem. Not everyone can afford to be an idealist all of the time. Until everyone can, these SSTRs will no doubt continue to exist.

It's not a pretty picture out there at the minute.

V1R :(

so did anyone hear anything? did anyone sign up for this deal ? just curious as i backed out when i read the paperwork and wondered if this actually came to anything !

Speaking recently to someone in my company with a lot of all round industry knowledge, he offered the opinion that the 757 is quickly taking over from where the 727 was 15 years ago, i.e. only good for freight. [I doubt there's a single major European passenger airline that wouldn't swap their 757s right now for A320/737NG family aircraft, assuming they weren't locked in through a very cheap lease deal / a very expensive to terminate lease deal / lack of money to do anything different.]

If I was going to invest this sort of money in a type rating, I certainly wouldn't pick the 757, however much I'd wish to fly it, which incidentally I'd love to.

757 self sponsorship
 

does anyone have information as to what happened to the 4 students that were selected from EPTA to self sponsor 757 type ratings and work for FlyJet/ air Atlanta.