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SpreadEagle 16th Jul 2011 12:07

BA is recruiting
 
BA Recruitment

"You will need:

For short haul vacancies you will have a current type rating and a minimum of 100 sectors or 500 hours experiance on a multi pilot aircraft with with MTOW more than 10 tonnes or more than 19 approved passengers"

Thanks BA, ya bunch of :mad:

What does it say in big letters at the top of your website?
Workplace - invest in people - British Airways

MIKECR 16th Jul 2011 12:27

I dont get your point. It says its a direct entry scheme for 'experienced' pilots. Theyre perfectly entitled to ask for experienced people only if they so wish. Its their train set.

B-HVY 16th Jul 2011 12:32


What does it say in big letters at the top of your website?
And your point is...?!??

Ad's not even asking for experience on specific types...

SpreadEagle 16th Jul 2011 14:37

:confused:

It was meant to be a light-hearted post, illustrating the hopelessness of the situation. It probably fell wide of the Mark MIKECR, because "This Forum is NOT for Job-hunting Experienced Pilots! ".

And don't worry. I am well aware no one is ever going to let me play with their train set. The message ":mad: off, you aren't rich enough" came through loud and clear a long time ago. My licenses are long expired.

As you can see I don't post that often anyway. I only posted this because I hadnt unsubscribed and BA sent me it as an e-mail alert. It only sums up everything I already know.

BA and others like them will never go back to hiring the brightest youngsters they can find. They certainly won't sponsor anyones fATPL training ever again, that is long gone. To my knowlegde they haven't funded anyones first TR since 2007, and now they want 500 hours so that anyone not getting into Ryan Air will be tempted into a p2f scam. They are exacerbating the problem.

Am I bitter? Well its hard to not care when you spent your life savings on a license many years ago and built 1000 hours experience only to have the goal posts moved. I mostly don't care. I get irked when I go on holiday and I hear Captain Bob Davis on the tannoy, introducing 19 y/o first officer Quentin Parker-Lloyd, who is undoubtedly a finer pilot than me. Here is Quentin. He came from Ryan Air.
http://www.pprune.org/interviews-job...ml#post6574359
http://www.pprune.org/interviews-job...ml#post6574364

If TRs and P2F experience is all that is important, its not why I wanted to be a pilot anyay.

And to BA. You get what you pay for.

kingofkabul 16th Jul 2011 15:24

SpreadEagle.

BA will be paying for the type ratings of these DEPs. They are looking for experienced pilots across an extremely broad range of aircraft, so I really do not understand why you have turned this into some sort of dig at BA saying they are supporting P2F. If anything the current recruitment manager at BA is strongly against P2F and paying for type-ratings.

As for not being interested in young talent, patience please. SSP may well re-open when there is training capacity in BA (they reduced BAFT capacity significantly post-2008 and are building resource again), and there are rumours of a cadet scheme starting soon.

SpreadEagle 16th Jul 2011 15:27

Well its too late for me, but I would love to see it all the same.

BitMoreRightRudder 16th Jul 2011 16:13


The message " off, you aren't rich enough"
With all due respect, the vast majority of people who fly for a living have not come from a wealthy background. Most of us borrowed the money and gambled on getting a job. I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.

Luke SkyToddler 16th Jul 2011 16:59

Undoubtedly, those young folk who got into the fully sponsored BA schemes of yesteryear, were both talented, and lucky beyond their wildest dreams. The couple of them that I know, are also possessed of a calm disposition and an outlook on life which seems to be 180 degrees opposite to yours.

But the illusion that some people are clearly under, that BA owes first-job-seekers some kind of a break, or even should have a moral obligation to train cadets, is nothing short of bizarre. They can indeed snap their fingers and they will get very large numbers of applications from very highly experienced pilots, with relevant time on type.

There certainly will, for example, be a great number of applications from pilots who lost their jobs in recent years with the collapses of XL / Globespan, and the redundancies that were made at Thomson and Virgin amongst others. A lot of them have been biding their time in the sandpit, or on contracts elsewhere in the world, and waiting for this exact opportunity.

There will also be plenty of ex services pilots, and the third group will be those who are already currently employed with UK airlines. Some will be from charter, some from other scheduled operators, and yes there will be even be some from the lo-co's.

And I'm sorry mate but every single one of them deserves their place in the queue ahead of you. As the previous poster pointed out you seem to be under some kind of illusion that successful pilots are all from rich backgrounds and somehow got given the money. The truth is that 99.9% of us borrowed the money and rolled the dice. I'm dead against P2F and buy-a-type-rating and ludicrously overpriced schools and pay-for-interview and shady marketing practice and I will slag off at anyone I find engaging in it, but BA have firmly resisted all those kind of practices while virtually all the rest of the industry has jumped on the band wagon in recent years, even previously-well-respected airlines like BMI. They could have done it and it would have added millions to their bottom line but they didn't.

However, the days of fully sponsored FATPL courses by flag carrier airlines are gone my friend and they aint coming back. BA in case you haven't noticed is under a shed load of financial pressure and if I was in charge and saw there was a fully funded cadet scheme I would tell the bean counters to get rid of it too, and only bring it back when I actually saw a shortfall of suitably licenced / qualified / experienced pilot applicants.

If you really do have 1000 hours and you gave up so close to achieving your goals, well that's sad to hear. Flying isn't about who's the best or the brightest or the richest even, it's about who wants it the most and is the last one standing when everyone else from their training course has given up in despair. Yes there will be people with less hours than you who get the break before you. Yes there will be people who pay to jump the queue. But if you would have stuck with it and kept making those connections and posting those CV's and getting every poxy hour you could, you would have got the golden phone call just when you least expected it.

redsnail 16th Jul 2011 19:22

It doesn't say you need 500 hours. It says you need 100 sectors or 500 hours on a type of +10 tonnes. That's Hawker 800.

I think this is one of the most positive moves I have seen in the industry for years. Finally, a company recognises experience and isn't crazy in their demands.

SpreadEagle 16th Jul 2011 20:00

I wasn't going to reply but being as you are so out of touch ... (For Mr Toddler)

Interesting that all these people with opinions aren't wannabes. You are all pilots with jobs. You are delighted to see offers that you qualify for, that exclude others. And that's ok. But that is undoubtedly going to alter your opinion on things. You and everyone you work with got in. Naturally you want the best for them. But make no mistake. This TR 500 hr request means they want low cost airline pilots, and low cost will go back to Quentin and Cuthbert.

As for borrowing money, since the collapse in 2008 that is not possible. Banks won't lend money for TRs without something to secure it on.

I have no problem with those who lost jobs gaining new ones ahead of me either. I have come to accept I will never get an opportunity. In 3 years not a single interview. It doesn't really matter what my personality is like if no one ever bothers to find out does it? Armchair psychologists on pprune looking down their noses, warmly congratulating themselves that they are indeed better than you. In the end you just stop caring what other people think.

But you are giving out the same thoughtless advice that many other pilots do. There is a woman on here that keeps telling people to go to Africa or the Pacific. It doesn't help. You waste years of your life and get no further ahead.

No one cares I have 1000 piston hours. It is worthless. I see people get jobs, who have never flown in more than a 15kt wind. Never flown abroad. Never landed on grass.
Everyone of them, TR self-paid for. And they were well behind me in the queue. I was training before they did their GCSEs. I'm financially excluded from the queue, but that's a misnomer. There is no queue. Queue suggests you wait in line and one day its your turn.
It is nothing to do with how much you want it. That is a heap of horse:mad: and is stupid advice to give.
Just because you may have wanted it and got in doesn't mean it works like that. Pilots all want to tell themselves they are special and there by merit alone. You were just lucky.
I have a degree in Aerospace Engineering. I spent 4 years working for airbus in the Flight Physics department as an engineer. I finally saved enough to train as a pilot. I spent 3 further years 'wanting' it. Flying all over Europe, giving instruction, testing aircraft for renewal for the CAA, ferrying, demoing, the list goes on. I met directors of airlines, the press, senior pilots. Despite what you think I don't come off as a jerk in real life. But none of them can help, because I can't afford a TR.
Why can't I afford a TR? Cos I spent the last 3 years d*cking around in small planes earning so little I couldn't even renew my licenses in the end + I lost my home. How much more should I have wanted it?

I still get offered jobs now. I have 3 this month despite hanging up my headset when my IR went pop several months ago. All SEP, all pay less that £13,000 a year. I am a 33 year old man now. It took that long to get to where I am, despite wanting no other career since I was a child. I'm not going to do that until I am 65, because people on here keep telling me to want it. I will never get a job, nor would I ever have a life.

Sadly wannabes won't listen to my post. Confirmation bias will ensure they skip straight past to the nonsense you wrote. That there must be something wrong with me, or a huge upturn is around the corner or that they are better pilots or whatever it takes to make them feel their dream will happen.

For 80% of us who get licenses though, it doesn't. And no amount of wanting it makes 5 go into 1.

redsnail 16th Jul 2011 20:57

You've had a shot at me about telling folks to go to Africa etc. I only suggest it if it is possible. (age etc).

Do us "experienced" guys like what we see WRT "pay to play"? I and many others hate it, hence, the reason why I am so pleased to see BA open the doors. Why? It will open up opportunities for folks like yourself and for my colleagues that have been made redundant.

easyJet and Ryanair will not look at folks flying bizjets or even turboprops.
However, BA will. That's been a first for years.

You think you're the only one who hasn't had an interview? I have mates who have ATPLs and 737 experience who couldn't get a sniff of an interview for 2+ years. I am really sorry that you've lost your house. That does suck big time.

I and many others for years have been saying that there aren't enough jobs for every one. It's the same in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada and Europe.

It's not brilliance, it is persistence and a good dose of timing that is the only way to succeed in this industry. Yes, some folks have jumped the "queue" with the "pay to play".

SpreadEagle 16th Jul 2011 21:26

It wasn't at you redsnail. Some other person, but you all give the same advice. Unfortunately the market changed in the last few years. I know many of you guys mean well, but you fire off a 1 minute post that may influence the next 3 years of someones life. People on this forum look for any ray of hope they can and cling to it. They will come back, still require a TR and you mightn't even be on pprune to say "sorry, I thought that would work. "

And don't be sorry about my not getting a job. Admitting I wasn't going to be a pilot was horrible. The hardest thing I ever had to do in my life, bar none.

But now I feel like a huge weight is finally off my shoulders. I don't have to send off 50 CVs each month that get ignored. I don't have to keep paying FTOs and annual renewal tax for my IR. I don't have to keep testing people's aircraft for free just to throw hours into a log book that no one but me has ever read. The pressure I put myself under 'wanting' it was immense. It was making me ill.

I don't know what career I will go on to now. But when I read all the stuff in here, remember all the heartache it gave me, see the people who made it realise much of it isnt how they imagined anyway, see T&Cs get eroded, it just makes me optimistic about doing something else. And if I start earning a real living, I'll fly for fun. I loved flying. But that is the only part of the whole thing I did love.

Aviation made me value myself as worthless. Aviation can now kiss my :mad:.

But I hope it picks up for the rest of you. :ok:

Luke SkyToddler 17th Jul 2011 06:48

I feel your pain Spreadeagle honestly. I hate to see people who've done it the old-school way like yourself, get despondent and quit.

But it is still possible. And you are SO DAMN CLOSE

1000 hours in a piston single is not that much. Typically, certainly in the case of myself, Redsnail and most of the other people I know who came through that route, it was more like 2000 hours in the piston single before we got our first piston twin. It took me 5-and-a-half years of sub minimum wage instructing and GA and living in caravans etc, just to get that first break onto the PA31. Then 500 - 1000 hours of that, before we got our first battered old turboprop freighter. Then 2000 of that before we got onto the jets. Etc etc.

End of the day though you are only 33, you have all those qualifications and degrees and you have 1000 hours, and you say that you've turned down 3 paid piston-single jobs recently. I know people who would kill to be in your shoes :rolleyes:

We are coming through one of the worst periods of pilot employment in history, so many of the "jobs" available at the moment aren't real jobs at all they are bogus pay-to-fly deals. But there are still good airlines out there and I know for a fact, that there are still chief pilots who value the kind of experience you have and will gladly put a 200-hour-with-TR CV in the bin. Sadly, the airlines those chief pilots work for, haven't recruited for several years. But sooner or later they will.

Yes, all we have seen for bloody years now is kids buying their way into Ryanair. It makes guys like you want to go find a rope and tall tree sometimes. But like Red said, timing is everything.

I understand it's a brick wall for you now and I don't blame you for going uncurrent and throwing it away. But just keep an eye on the market my friend. Get another job that pays your way if you need to, but for god's sake keep at least your S/E piston rating current by instructing on weekends or whatever.

I know another guy who was exactly in your shoes, 1500 hours and 4 years of instructing and he'd hit the wall, he basically put the whole thing on hold because he was sick of the B.S., went back to his old job in the city. I do admit he kept his IR current in a king-air sim or something to that effect. Still kept his subscription to Flight International though, lucky boy. Sitting in the office monday morning reading the Flight magazine, saw a job advertised local to him, phoned up, got in his car at lunch time, went around to see them, same day he was recruited to the RHS of a Gulfstream 5. Just like that, completely out of the blue, I talked to him on the phone and you could have absolutely knocked him over with a feather. And he was literally crying with happiness man.

Megaton 17th Jul 2011 07:27

All very well suggesting that employers lower the bar but guess what happens then: you have considerably more applicants to choose from and your chances of success will still be slim. You gave up at 33 years old? I didn't start until I was 37 and not many years later I find myself flying a very large jet. The airlines are not charities and don't owe anybody anything. P2F is a cancer that's driving down terms and conditions across the industry but having a pop at BA is pointless since they are still (for the moment) paying for initial type rating training courses.

portsharbourflyer 17th Jul 2011 07:50

Facts:

500 hours on type required.

So Guy/gal who has gone to Eaglejet done 500 hours at Lionair is eligible to apply.

Instructor with 1500 hours, from two years of full time instructing. Doesn't get a look in.

Many of the airlines that use to recruit 1000 hour instructors now only recruit though CTC.

Consider the price of an instructors rating and the fact that most instructional jobs only pay 15 pounds per hour, then pay to fly schemes actually are for many the economically more viable option.

While BA may take on some experienced turboprop drivers I would suspect the majority recruited by BA in the next few months will be ex- Ryanair, Easy and Eaglejet, already rated on the 737, 320. So while BA may pay for the initial rating I suspect they may avoid paying for several ratings by biasing the recruitment to those with the relevant ratings.

captainsuperstorm 17th Jul 2011 08:11

look spreadeagle,
I understand your disapointment, but this is life mate!
here in europe, european f...k european! don't expect anything. you must be a taker not a giver! this is how it works.

you will always see a guy with less experience getting a better job.
always see a guy with plenty of money getting a super job after 2 days, when you have struggled for years.
it s not fair! yes we know.
d'ont give too much of a piss and move on wit these suckers....move with the next interview or you will finish bitter the rest of your life.
All these airlines , BA captains are a bunch of gays with their 30'000 euro a month. as loong they dont hire P2F is a good step.

Believe me, I hate this mentality of stabbing, who will get the biggest plane t/rating or the biggest d..k.

it sucks, but that's life! if you don't like it, change profession because nobody own you a job.

I have a degree in Aerospace Engineering. I spent 4 years working for airbus in the Flight Physics department as an engineer
this a fantastic job, if i was at airbus industry, belive me, i would f... aviation and stay with airbus and fly my little plane during weekend, nothing better to be on CATIA and be fullyy involved in constuction.
I met guys working at airbus and they are proud f it!
it seems to me, you will never be happy in your life.so be careful with that!

I have friends who were flying the big jet, not they went back instructing and they are happy with that. why? because the airline mentality sucks... I know even guys who lef the big airlines because they were pissed and went fly for corporates or for flight schools, and are totally happy.

I am now looking for a jet job for corporates and don't give a toss for these s..t airlines, been there...airline is over for me, they can kiss my a.ss ! when you see how badly the treat you, better to do something else and keep your freedom!

at BA, they have probably received 50'000 CV. thye will kill eachover at their selection test."pleae, select ,me me me!!!!, mememememem!!!!!"

50yo or 12 yo, these pilots have still not evolved! they are all drowling like dogs when they see a BA written somewhere.

SpreadEagle 17th Jul 2011 12:25

I didn't come to this acceptance, because I just woke up not 'wanting' it one morning. I gave up because all this old school scraping for hours had left me destitute. I finally could not afford to get in a twin and redo my IR. No license, no fly. And it isn't the answer anyway. p2f is the answer. Its why this guy has an interview, and I have never had one yet after 3 years.
http://www.pprune.org/interviews-job...ml#post6574364
Shame, because I know why I want to be a pilot.

But it was a blessing in disguise. It was the smack across the face with a big wet kipper that I needed.

As my OP showed, even those who traditionally were interested in investing in those who 'wanted' it, they have had theirs hands forced by the p2f brigade. They haven't joined them yet, but its only going one way. I can't see anyone funding an unrated pilot with no jet time ever again.

As for all those people 'who would kill for' SEP paid jobs, that is the problem. Its why despite all the skills, knowledge, financial investment etc, I can still only ask for £10-£15 an hour for my airborne time. Ground time usually comes at a flat rate £0 p/h. Why is a plumber £70/h? Because there isn't an army of wannabe plumbers wanting to unblock my toilet for free.

And yes, I am 33. I'm not getting any prettier. Flying has been the only thing in my life for too long. I want other things as well. (greedy aint I?). I would like my own family, my own home, the things normal people have.

Even if I could carry on, I might get to 5000 hours. But airlines may care even less by then. 10 years ago you would never have imagined pilots paying for training, TRs and 500 hours on type. What on earth are they going to want from us in 10 years time? The goal posts will have moved again. I have one life. Its too important to risk it all chasing rainbows. No one has a gentleman's agreement with me that if I just keep at it I will get that job. To come to that realisation in another 10 years, probably would leave me hanging from the nearest tree, and the writing is on the wall.

I'm gonna do something else. I'll keep my eye on what happens, but I won't be holding my breath and I'm not gonna waste any more time wanting it.

Yeles 17th Jul 2011 13:34

Just a question if anybody knows that.
If you fullfill all the requirements, TR, hours, etc.. Is a uk JAA licence a must?.
Did anybody applied succesfully with an ATPL issued by another JAA country?

MrBernoulli 17th Jul 2011 14:40

Yeles, read the recruitment link page carefully -

You will also hold a UK issued JAA/CAA ATPL(A)
"Will ... hold" means exactly that - it must be a UK issued JAA/CAA ATPL(A).

SpreadEagle - even if you did meet initial recruiting requirements, I suspect you would fall down somewhere else in the recruiting process. :rolleyes:

PPRuNeUser0215 17th Jul 2011 14:58

Reddo

Just a quick one to say that the XL and XLS do not fall in the 10T category by 900 and 800 kgs respectively. Given in Lbs, the heaviest, the XLS has a MTOW of 20200 lbs and 20000 lbs for the XL.

A technicality mind you. ;)

Cheers

Dihaz 17th Jul 2011 23:51

Dont forget you must also be able to go through ZFTT.
JAA requirements for ZFTT are at least 500 hours multi-crew multi pilot commercial time on aircraft >10t, hence BA's 10t requirement.

Desk-pilot 18th Jul 2011 10:33

Don't give up
 
I just wanted to post here to say never give up, especially now when the market does seem to be slightly improving for everyone.

This BA announcement is great news for everyone because those of us who have spent a few years on turboprops in a regional airline will now have a chance to apply for our dream job. Our seats in the regional turboprop airlines will have to be filled by people like you guys. I've spent over 4 years flying the Dash 8 as have many of my colleagues at Flybe. I think virtually FO in my base will be applying for BA and although not all of us will be lucky enough to get in a significant number will. Expect recruitment to start in airlines like Flybe very soon and in significant volumes.

I suspect that Flybe, BMI regional, Eastern, Arann and all those other first rung on the ladder airlines are about to see a significant exodus in the next 12 months or so. If rumours are to believed then BA are looking to recruit 1000 pilots in the next 5 years and that's ignoring Monarch, Virgin etc etc who are also either recruiting or about to.

I'm not sure there will ever be a real shortgage of pilots as predicted by Boeing, but this is the most positive move in the industry for a very long time.

And I too refused to pay for a type rating and was never asked to by Flybe who for all their faults have given me superb training, a reasonable salary, brilliant experience and trusted me with their almost brand new highly capable Q400's on a huge variety of routes. I really cannot recommend them highly enough as a first job and they like older guys too. Uniforms, hire cars, crew food, salaries, overnight allowances were all provided from day one and they will always have my respect for that.

As a company Flybe have more lovely E-jets coming too and to be honest some will choose to stay because of that and the fact they are expanding and that will create good opportunities for everyone.

I actually find myself applying to BA and yet feeling slightly sentimental about Flybe who gave me my first chance to fulfill my airline career dream. For some of you they will help you on your way too just as they have those of us who are here already. The past 4 years really have been great and I have learned a lot and flown with soem superb guys and gals - I really couldn't have realistically hoped for a better start than that...

I wish you all luck whoever you end up flying for and wherever you fly. I promise you this too whether your first type ends up being a Q400, a twin otter or a Saab 2000: The first day you strap in and look down that 2000 plus metre runway and push the levers forward you're going to be so thrilled you won't care it doesn't say Boeing on the side...

redsnail 18th Jul 2011 11:29

Amex, Sorry mate, I'll amend it to say "Hawker" :E :ok:

Flying Wild 18th Jul 2011 14:24


Originally Posted by Dihaz (Post 6577933)
Dont forget you must also be able to go through ZFTT.
JAA requirements for ZFTT are at least 500 hours multi-crew multi pilot commercial time on aircraft >10t, hence BA's 10t requirement.

So why the requirement for 100 sectors OR 500 hours? How will that work?

Invalid User Name 18th Jul 2011 15:35

Jar - fcl 1:


3 required pilot experience
a pilot undertaking zftt course shall have completed, on a multi-pilot turbo-jet transport category aeroplane or on a multi-pilot turbo-prop aeroplane having a mtom of not less than 10 tonnes or an approved passenger seating configuration of more than 19 passengers, at least:
(a) 1500 hours flight time or 250 route sectors if a flight simulator qualified to level cg, c or interim c is used duering the course; or
(b) 500 hours flight time or 100 route sectors if a flight simulator qualified to level dg, interim d or d is used during the course.
When a pilot is changing from a turbo-prop to a turbo-jet aeroplane or from a turbo-jet to a turbo-prop aeroplane, additional simulator training approved by the authority shall be required.

Garba51 18th Jul 2011 18:45

Bloody hell, why is the Hawker 400XP MTOW only 7.4????? :ugh:

Good luck to you all anyway!

Garba51 18th Jul 2011 19:28

I'm asking myself this question:

From the text I read : ..."a pilot undertaking zftt course shall have completed, "on a multi-pilot turbo-jet transport category aeroplane" or "on a multi-pilot turbo-prop aeroplane having a mtom of not less than 10 tonnes or an approved passenger seating configuration of more than 19 passengers"....

Could this mean, either a MPA Turbo Jet (Learjet, Da10/20, Be400, XL, XLS... pilots would be happy) or a Turbo prop plane with MTOW >= 10 T or > 19 seats to be eligible for a ZFTT?

In this case, me and my colleagues from NJE on the 400 I would be really relieved :ok:

binsleepen 18th Jul 2011 20:38

Mr B.

If you click apply the 3rd question asks "Do you hold, or can you convert your licence to, a UK Issued JAA/CAA ATPL (Full or "Frozen")?" my bold.

Dihaz

Its 500hr multi-pilot >10 T not necessarily commercial.

Regards

oOjorelOo 18th Jul 2011 21:47

Thank you Desk-pilot for that positive post. :-D

Dihaz 18th Jul 2011 23:17

binsleepen being pedantic.
By asking for 'multi-pilot' time its safe to assume that generally it will be from a commercial background. Not very many multi-pilot, non-commercial operations out there.

binsleepen 19th Jul 2011 09:03

Dihaz,

Not being pedantic just trying to be accurate. There are lot of military or ex military pilots out there that have alot of multi-pilot time that is not commercial. After reading your post I went to re-read the BA ad as some airlines do specify commercial time in there recruitment requirements, BA does not. The difference may be small but it will make a big difference to some.

Regards

Garba51 19th Jul 2011 09:23

Hi guys,

From the last post I made, could someone confirm if my interpretation of the FCL is correct or not please?

redsnail 19th Jul 2011 09:40

Garba51, what the FCL says is irrelevant if BA have decided "10 tonnes". However, if I were you, I'd have a good look at the BA application and see if you can make it fit.

Good luck.

Garba51 19th Jul 2011 09:44

thanks Reddo,

Well, I had a look and therefore, I'm 3 tons below the minimums. So sad :(

At least it means that I read the FCL correctly :ok:

Take care and good luck

2 Whites 2 Reds 19th Jul 2011 13:24

SpreadEagle.....

I really am sorry it didn't work out for you. Had things not gone my way I couldn't promise that I wouldn't be bitter about it so this is not a dig but.....

Saying people are way out of touch is a bit of a bold sweeping statement. I come from a normal middle class family, no hint of "Quentin" or "Cuthbert" in me, trust me! As for paying for TR's, I certainly didn't have the money to pay for one so I had to go and do some trolley dolleying and instructing until I landed a job last year on a jet where the company pay for the rating and ALL training costs with no financial input from me, just a bond for 3 years. Don't leave, Don't pay.

In short, there are opportunities out there and I don't think there are as many folks as you might think that come from wealthy backgrounds. The few that I've come across that have zero training debt, a jet job and a nice new BMW in the car park have generally suffered tragic family losses much much earlier in their lives and used their inheritence to fund their training. So don't be too quick to judge. I'd rather have my parents than my jet job any day of the week! Yes of course there are the toff's, but you find those anywhere so it's best just to worry about yourself and your circumstances, life's too short to start worrying about what the "Quentin's" and "Cuthbert's" are upto!!!

Redsnail is bang on the money about the requirements......finally someone recognising those of us doing lots of sectors but not too many hours a year. Really positive leap forward, Well done BA :D

Dihaz 19th Jul 2011 14:24

Garba, thats correct. Sorry your short.

Binsleepen, I see your point. But there is a whole different job advertisement and set of requirements for the military guys - the 'Managed Path'.

Torque Tonight 19th Jul 2011 15:24

I can understand SpreadEagle's disappointment that things didn't work out for him. That's unfortunate - this is a brutal industry to be in, especially during the downturns. It is a shame that his understandable bitterness has mutated into some nasty prejudices that will do him no favours at all in any industry. You are so far wide of the mark that I switched off from your posts at a fairly early stage, having abandoned hope of rational debate.

How BA opening up the recruitment doors can be interpreted as a bad thing is hard to comprehend. ANY movement in the recruiting market is good news, whether you meet the requirements or not. If you qualify, you benefit directly. If you do not yet qualify, people who do will leave opening up spaces in the career level above you, and everyone moves along one step. It is good news all round.

Garba51 19th Jul 2011 15:38

Thank you Dihaz, Maybe they see I'm so awesome that they put me straight onto the 747 :p Just kidding.

Maybe next time then ;)

Dihaz 19th Jul 2011 19:04

Garba,

Well that's kinda what I'm hoping. I'm a 744 driver, but don't meet hours for long haul. Wonder what they'll do with me....

Good luck buddy :D

captainsuperstorm 19th Jul 2011 19:42

go lick their BA a.s!
now the have probably received thousand of CV, all ready to stab the next pilot for a 320 seats.

you make me :yuk:... I know, I have been one of these! a sucker!

you go nowhere with this mentality. and these people are called " professional pilot":{

the good thing is these suckers will be employed, leaving seats in other airlines, and BA will have to deal with these new suckers bitching everyday because they have 500h of jet and expect to be treated like GOD..

I hate this profession! all a bunch of failure!

when you reach 65, you will count your money, captains will complain because they have to buy water for their swiming pool, 3 divorces in a row, losing houses in london or in malibu beach, and they will continue to complain, complain and complain!!!! I always hear pilot to complain, it s non stop... "i want this I want that", "me me me" bla bla... sick of it!

everytime I see a pilot, it s" I want fly this", "I want get a job in that"..."I, I, I"

what's wrong with you???


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