Ryanair rejection rate !
 

Hello !

I was wondering if some of you could estimate FR's rejection rate for 737 type rated people with 500 hours on type.

I actually had just bad experience with Tyrolean Airways/Austrian Arrors, and it s not that I am paranoid but a little bit courious !

Thanks for the answers.

About 50% overall failure-rate, is what I've heard from a Ryanair captain.:{

Ok, so that should also include low houred non rated 737 pilots...

So basically the chances are not that bad ? Anyone else heard or know anything ?

That is not bad at all compared to BA or Austrian Arrows, for example!

I would say it is more like 60-30. 30 being the rejection rate. Those numbers are based on what I know from our interviews this summer.

What happened to the other 10%???

10% never even make it there? :}

And I thought I was bad at maths... :rolleyes:

Just make sure you know basic IFR flying skills(remember QDM/QDR!) and can fly a SE ILS. Get use to clockwork dials, no FD's and no autopilot.
If you can do that you'll pass.

Attitude and good CRM of course.

What do you mean by "clockwork dials" ?!

As in... analog. :ok:

...or steam guages :\

Can anyone please help me with what QDM/QDR is. We don't use those terms in the States.

Thanks

QDM is your magnetic track to the becon. QDR is your magentic track from the beacon.

If you think of the R in QDR as Radial, i.e. track away from the beacon, then you will remember which way around they go.

'About 50% overall failure-rate, is what I've heard from a Ryanair captain.'

Does this mean after completing the type rating and paying £20,000+ 50% of people get the chop? seems very high to me considering the extra financial comittment and screening/ assesssment that has already taken place.

Do many of these 50% find other 737 jobs? or are they just swallowed up by a mountain of debt never to be seen again?

great! thanx for that! Im thinkin of heading on up to join you lot in the UK and was wondering what all this stuff ment.

as an aside, does anyone know where QNH came from?!? some kiwi pilot who instructs at my uni told me, but i dont believe him, if i get the same answer from you ill believe him!

QNH (and all the other Qs) comes from the WW2 RAF Q code, which had a three-letter code for almost anything aviation-related. It's been discussed before on this site, and there are plenty of references to it elsewhere on the interweb thingy.

Scroggs

Well, it proves my point anyway...most of us pass the interview:E :E

Err....... ALL of us pass the interview otherwise we wouldn't be US would we? We'd be them! ;)

Just to keep you guys hopeful. Spoke to a senior member of ryanair. This year is the first year that ryanair can't expand to its wishes. The reason you may ask? Well it's because they don't have enough pilots. Same story at Flybe, they don't have enough training time to train the pilots. Scroggs, you can confirm or deny this, but i've heard that even virgin can't get enough pilots (read experienced pilots) because all the training courses are full. The next 12 months will be like 1996-97, keep believing, and you will get there!!