Sterling to euros
 

ok so I need to ask a question that's off the current topic but almost on the actual topic of the thread!
I need to pay my TR money. (before you all start it's my money not the bank or mummy and daddy's.) and I need to pay CAE who are in the Netherlands and so would like it in euros, however the problem I have is that the robbing banks are wanting to charge around 1.08 euros to the pound instead of the actual exchange rate of around 1.10! Doesn't sound like alot but actually is around 600 pounds!!!!
Can anyone give me advice on how I may get an exchange rate that resembles the actual rate and not one to make OUR banks money?

I am even asking you the beak!!!
Many thanks guys,
Happy landings!

anyone any news about assessments coming up? cheers... no replies from thebeak please this forum is supposed to be about interviews and pilots looking for jobs not people giving their unwanted opinion about ryanair

The 0.02 is their margin, they are not going to do it for free after all:=

1.08 is a very good deal considering the current rate as well to be honest.

I completely agree, ofcourse the banks need to make money, but how can they justify 600 pounds?? 0.02 is nothing when you are wanting to exchange 500 pounds for your holiday but surely when exchanging great numbers of sterling to euros a fix charge would make more sence?? I already pay the banks enough just for using my account!!

I fully agree but thats the way it is unfortunately.

I recently changed some money on XE.com, i was wanting 100 euros. The best i could get was 1.08ish

so i was looking at getting 108 euros, of course theres and exchange fee of £10!

So i ended up paying £104 for 100 euros:ugh::ugh::ugh:. I think they saw me coming and i certainly wont be using them again for changing small amounts!

Airbusfreak, you never replied to the PM you sent me a while back.

Unless you have a friend or colleague with a euro account (probably someone who has a business that does some form of trade overseas), and they are willing to do you a favour, then you are going to have to pay the bank.

"must add to my post, the Ryanair pilots I don't like are the 18-22 year olds who have done a tin pot degree/no degree, done a full integrated course and then the TR with Ryanair. Those are the 'pilots' I speak of." - thebeak


"I am 22, have a PPL and have the money to complete the rest of my ATPL training with Oxford through their 'Waypoint' programme. I also have the opportunity to go to Sandhurst and be in the Army for 4 years and then do my pilot training. I do not have a degree though I did do a couple of years at uni doing Mechanical Engineering." - thebeak's first post

Theberk,

In your first ever post, you disclose that you are 22 years old, have dropped out of your degree and "have the money" to attend an integrated course at OAT. Please explain the discrepancies between these statements.

Now that is interesting!

Mmmmm very interesting when you don't have the full story. Where is the discrepancy? The only similarity is 22 years old which was the later part of the range quoted in my comment. I didn't pay for a TR but I did pay for my training......with MY money thank god.

I earned/ am earning my money as a broker, there's good money in it Les.
:}

The discrepancy thebeak, if it needed to be pointed out, is that you are 22, have no degree and completed an integrated course. I take no issue with either one of these facts but from your previous comment, it would appear that you do. An embarassing inconsistency in my view.

You are very quick to judge and scoff at others and I thought would extend the same courtesy.

FWIW
 

OAA's Waypoint is a modular course - albeit the most expensive one around.

this forum has now officially nothing to do with pilots who are looking for a job with ryanair all these posts should be moved to the generic ryanair forum.

Ah now we know, your like that prat off the most recent series of the Apprentice that did selection at sandhurst purely so that they can go telling everyone that they passed it.


In actual fact beak, are you Ben from the Apprentice?

That would explain your immaturity and childish attitude to all.

I think Callsign Kilos post pretty much blows any of beakys arguments out of the water. Paid a premium to go to OAA to have a few doors opened but it backfired.

Beaky - If you are a an unemployed 737 driver from XL, all the best and good luck. Only thing I can suggest is you head south to the jungle or desert - like many of your XL colleagues - get yourself a 1000hrs total and return to Europe when the market picks up. Thats what I and many others had to do a few years ago. I'm sure you will come back with some interesting CRM stories:eek: Sadly also today many redundancies at TFly announced and many of them experenced 737 drivers.

airbusfreak

Not much newbee training going on at the moment, however, since the base freeze ended in August there have been lots of command upgrades and a steady stream of F/O's promoted to SFI's which ultimately makes room for those at the bottom of the ladder. Recruitment of direct entry captains also continues. The RYR website NEWS section is always a good source of information. Extra aircraft announced for LPL, BRS, ALC, CRL, etc, new routes and now a base in Norway. PAX loads remain good, especially flights between UK and Ireland - as always. Hopefully this should offer some hope to those starting out - if your prepared to accept the terms and conditions::{ :ugh:

You're fired!
 

I KNEW I had heard that Sandhurst line somewhere before!!

Let me get this straight.

Im guessing you left school at 18?
so you went to uni "for a couple of years", so lets assume 2 years.
So you dropped out at 20? assuming you didnt have a gap year?
You then walked into a job as a broker and managed to earn enough money in two years to fund all your training? + fund a PPL as well?
Whats a trainee Broker starting on then? 20k-30k max?

Come on beak lets see some answers.

Yup for a relatively small brokerage owned by a friend of a friend.
20-30K max as a commodity broker? Are you kidding me? Times them by 5 as a minimum.

17

19

You have stumped them now beak, a young adult that doesn't need daddys cheque book to help make his/her way in life.good on you buddy. at least you know what you have, you bought, unlike 75% of these pay to fly kids who are still breast fed at 22! If i wore a hat i would tip it to you

And for what its worth i did the same post 9/11. And i reckon i could make my way now without daddy flashing the cash, however bad it is.It might take me time but i would get there. Its all about using your initiative and thats something daddy cant buy you. Remember the only airplanes that fly now are 737s with a harp on the tail in europe.....:ugh:.Due to the ryr revolution no light twins/turbo props fly in africa or asia or anywhere else.

You can just imagine the interview at ryr hq, so little jonny how did you get to where you are? Well daddy provided the security for my cpl and meir loan, and for my type rating daddy provided the money/security too, and i can afford to work for $%^& all because daddy will support me. Oh well clearly your just what we want little jonny, someone with no patience, clearly incapable of making your own way in life, no initiative, the foresight of a mayfly, and whose life stoy will be about as interesting and inspiring as reading the recipe for a full english breakfast -oh yes, daddy bought me a job!

Of course danny the 737 f/o with 2000 hrs on type who is out of work with a mortgage and 2 kids cant afford this crap so he get shafted.

Oh well it should make for some interesting conversations up front in a few years when the capt is a guy that got shafted by these pay to fly heroes who are in the right!

beaky you say in your location you are 'everywhere', but you talk like an englishman so on that i shall base my assumption.

to go to uni requires UCAS points.

this requires A levels or similar two year course to accumulate said points.

you left school when 17.

the youngest you can be upon starting aforementioned course is 16.

again, it takes two years...

doesnt add up mate and youre losing credibility as we speak.

hell i'd have thought about it if you'd said you were a broker at 18 cos that's believable, but your dates just don't add up.

small brokerage? doesnt matter if its tiny or youre the ceo of coleman you have massively undercut the earnings of most in this industry, and thats because its more believable than telling people you earn 100k +

Ah no, not again in this forum. That must be the tenth time I have lost credibility on here and had it proclaimed by someone on behalf of everyone - I'd give examples but I can't be bothered, read through the last 2 pages or so and you'll see. At least I must still have some for me to keep on losing credibility.

Now to answer some completely irrelevant questions to the thread in the hope that I can restore my 'credibility' with you all.:{

Yes I am British.

Uh no it doesn't, and certainly not in this socialist country. Just being from the wrong part of London, if you know what I mean, can get you in. That aside, yes, in my case, I had more than enough UCAS points - not that they have ever done me any good.

We've established now that you can read.

Is it? I am sure I saw a story about a little 13 year old Indian girl going to Oxford to read Maths in The Sun. I must have imagined it.

Here is a timeline for you peanut brain:

Aged 17 and a half I left school and went to uni for just off two years. I left at 19. Whilst there I did the selection for the Army. On leaving I had already set up a sort of 'apprenticship' (just like Ben) with a friend of a friend (He was actually a friends, friends brother). I started on a small salary and learned, had a go, met the right people which is important in this industry and benefitted from an incredible financial period.


I don't understand what you are saying there and I don't think you understand what commodity broking is.


Blackred, as always buddy, cheers.