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Old 26th Jan 2012, 12:14
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marlim I have been following this post for a while now and refrained from adding my opinions since I had not been in alpha for long enough.

I can now honestly tell that you are misleading everyone here. You seem to think that AAG is never completely at fault. I heard that it took them something like 2 years to get 2 cessnas 172! Now is that something to be proud off? I think you will come up with excuses to save their ass. The old students were apparently false promised that the planes would be ready in a few weeks everytime they asked.

LIES were told everyday to the students.

Now lets come to the exams. When i joined alpha the CGI proudly said that no one has failed the Ground School. I was impressed. I started to do the exams and when i did my first GCAA exams i realized that every question was copied and pasted from the question bank. Now any idiot can just learn the answers and not understand anything. I sadly worked hard and did not do well and others who just learnt all the answers by heart scored 90%+. Not only that students cheat in the exams. I have seen it with my own eyes. No wonder everyone passes. The captains must know about this but will not care. Everyone that passes the ground school will pay an extra 150k DHS for the flying. AAG will benefit from this NOT us. The students that we have in my class are quiet frankly appalling. One of them could not solve 5x+20=50 when we studied mass and balance. How did he pass the entrance exams I will never know. A 9 year old can solve that equation!
I knew that he was poor in Mass and Balance let alone other subjects. Yet he has managed to get 90% avg in exams. How? By learning all the answers from the question bank. If i ask him to explain how he got an answer he will shrug his shoulders and admit that he does not know. And yet these students pass GCAA exams and go on to flying.

Now tell me is this a good way to test students? NO! But by doing this the students will all pass with excellent marks. AAG can proudly show these marks to new possible cadets and fool them into joining Alpha. I have been fooled. Hopefully no one else will.

If you do join Alpha then do so at ur own cost. Do not believe a word AAG says.

And btw Marlim can u please tell me how a flying school managed to have 3 accidents in the space of 1 year. How is it that we had too few instructors. Is it a positive thing that AAG have been banned from holding flying classes. They have just covered it up by sending us to Australia. It is amusing how NO ONE ever failed when they flew in Shj or Clarke and yet students have failed in Australia. This just shows that AAG is playing with peoples lives. It is high time that you start being honest with people here , Marlim. You only seem to be giving ur experiences and not the full truth that u here from others!

Also,you defended AAG when they were closed down for 2 months. Tell me which flying school would do that? It is appaling that u even think about defending these situations. I am a student of AAG and I am disgusted by the way the handle the flying school. Sadly I cannot leave since my money is already in AAG.

You seem to be flying well and will eventually become a captain for Air Arabia. Now i have a question for you. Would you feel safe that you have a first officer from AAG who does not know anything from ground school since he passed all his exams by learning the answers as ABCD? I would not as a passenger. If the plane runs into trouble the answer will not be given to him. I can honestly say that 90% of the students do not understand ANYTHING from ground school or alteast very little and yet they have managed to score above 80% in all of their exams. That is something to be proud off right?

And captain wierd the problems will never be solved. Trust me on that. The only way AAG can solve it is if they close down AAG for a few months and get a new management staff. This will never happen so AAG's problems will never be solved.

Why do you get annoyed with Taras B is giving all the problems. It is clear that he knows the management very well and should be trusted with what he says. After all he knows a lot more than any on us will know when it comes to AAG.

I for one completely agree with him. Save to say if I could get my money back and had to redo my ground school all over again in another flying school i would agree without a moments hesitation. Btw my avg in ground school is close to 90%. How? Because i learnt the way to do well in the exams. I did work hard and do understand the subject but no where near to the marks that i have scored. AAG is making a fool of GCAA and tbh i will not be surprised if one of the AAG students ends up in an air crash. AAG will have blood on their hands then!
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Old 29th Jan 2012, 08:41
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seems like everyone is agreeing with Taras B. well apart from marlim and his side kick captain.weird
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Old 29th Jan 2012, 09:59
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So very true. I can confirm that everyword written by honestpilot is true. The answers from the question bank are learnt without understanding inorder to secure high marks. What is more appaling is some cadets are too lazy to even do that so they resort to cheating. They find out a week before exams who all are going to get the same exam paper as them(three sets of different exam papers are given) Then the question bank is divided between the cadets who will get the same paper. They resort to mass scale cheating right under the nose of captains through sign language. Like for question fifteen I will show both hands once and one hand once more. My friend who has got the same paper will be sitting next to me and will show one finger if the answer is A and if the answer is C he will show three fingers. How do authorities allow this mass scale cheating I will never know. To add to this the authorities brought to the notice that some cadet had broken into the filing cabinets where the exam papers were kept. But no action was taken. Malim I am waiting to hear what you have to say. Can you deny the above stated facts
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Old 29th Jan 2012, 17:15
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long story short forget about joing AAG. Taras is right its useless to join MPL program when there is no Guaranteed Line Training.

anyways !! any of u guys have got idea about Moncton Flight College ? they got 3 good programs.

1. B.s.c in Aviation Technology for 4 years
2. Diploma in Aviation Technology for 20 months which is kinda 2 years
3. MPL

i wish they have B.s.c in Aviation Management.

anyways !! please screw this now. any info will be much appreciated if its meaningful or worthful LOL
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Old 30th Jan 2012, 09:43
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Positive/Negative Comments

Since I have a Proper PC & a Keyboard + a Bigger Screen AND the Time, I would Like to Say:

Guys, I totally agree with whatever is mentioned, if it is 100% True (But some of the Ground School facts are not), as far as you also have to keep in-mind, that the Clark Experience is different from the Sharjah's One, there is an AIRLINE & a proper GCAA & Cadets who are willing to go to court.

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Now, to those who want to blame Malirm or Just let Malirm look like that he is on the Opposite side:

1. What is my Motive?

Money (I guess not), Bad will (I guess who ever met me would answer that).

2. What did I Post?

I posted & spoke about my EXPERIENCE as a TRAINEE & what I have heard...etc. AND my Opinion (not recommendations)

3.Did I recommend MPL?

I remember I mentioned that, it is MY best choice to get into an airline in the UAE in the shortest time (time became a problem apparently) as compared to the triditional CPL/IR...different People Different choices.

4. For Those who filled my PM inbox with Questions...did I recommend Alpha/MPL?

The Answer is NO, I simply mentioned, WAIT for us to Graduate, see how the employment goes on & THEN Decide. There were some SPECIFIC questions that I answered about the STATUS of AAG (Sharjah) & what's happening...etc. that I answered honestly.

5. Is it a Part-Time Job?

It might be, if it was yours on the Opposite side...as far as I know, I don't need that Part-time Money or a Job beside my Job as a PILOT.

6. When I got a YEAR of Delays & uncertainty/Ambiguity...did I Open my Mouth with a Bad word about AAG/Air Arabia/GCAA ?

NO, as I am Sure that atleast 1 of them is working hard to improve the quality of training, to know later, that ALL of them are. You know as much as I know, that this new Management in AAG Sharjah, was in no doubt the working Horse of the Academy (Away from Contracts & Guys who Failed & AAGs Upper Management).

7. Does Alpha need an improvement on Pre-Screening/Screening Process?

YES 100%, since 2010, COMPASS is not an Effective tool as far as we have seen & Experienced, we need a better one where, nobody can pass through easily, BUT, Legally, as I mentioned, it is a Certified way to do it

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To Sum Up (Away from the Contract Problems & AAGs Upper Management):

Batches have started since Feb 2009, I guess 8 batches until this moment (about 80 students or little More):

Only ONE batch have Graduated with all 9 with ABY since Oct 2011

About 16 in Type Rating - Intermediate/Advanced (will be done starting from March)

More in Australia (Don't know when they'll finish)

More in Ground School

SOME have Failed in different stages (as per the Count, 5, CORRECT ME PLEASE).

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As YannisFr mentioned, Unprofessionalism in Management, I guess, Upper Management, I felt it ever since my Colleagues' & I training was delayed, but happily I can say...It was sorted out (i.e. non of the batches would suffer the same AGAIN), as far as I got to know, the lower management in UAE (since 2011, are to a good standard, specially the HOT (who is leaving after sorting it out for the Core Flying/Intermediate & Advanced phases...CORRECT Me if I'm Wrong).

About the ground school cheating, please ask the 2 instructors who left AAG to Horizon, who is the One who was allowing it, One of them was responsible for that...

About Learning the Questions, I personally didn't open the book to specifically LEARN the Question, Yes, I might have seen SOME questions here & there that are exactly the same on the Q paper, it is OAT question bank, you can download it now from the web if you want. Same applies to other Aviation Authorities, you can buy a Nice Book filled with the FAA ATP Qs & As...what about EASA (the same)...so, you can just leave that out of discussion.

Guys, Cheer Up, things are Changing to the Better, more news to come, if your Problem was with CLARK, go & post in that Thread, if it was with AAG Sharjah, you are in the right place

I Hope the Best for you guys...TC...as I hope The Best for AAG Batches & Our Batch

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Old 31st Jan 2012, 02:08
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What happened here?

http://www.gcaa.gov.ae/en/ePublicati...013%202011.pdf
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Old 31st Jan 2012, 17:23
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Nav. Solo after only 2.9 of total Solo ???????

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Old 31st Jan 2012, 18:38
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Well 2.9 is on the lower side but it can still be sufficient if the dual x ctry check was completed and the candidate was deemed proficient. What happened on the landing? and why is it happening over and over?
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Old 31st Jan 2012, 19:25
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For once Malirm agrees with regard to the mass scale cheating in ground school. Well why should I ask anyone. Alpha is responsible and accountable to GCAA in this regard. With regard to the number of failed cadets I can count so far 5 in the 3 batches I know but they all havent yet completed their core flying so the actual number will be much higher. After the flighting was closed down by the GCAA in Sharjah the 4 cadets midway through their training will be leaving for Australia. Since Malirm loves giving updates he should have written about the air accident which took place on 5 Dec and the real reason why Alpha was forced to shut down their flying.
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Old 31st Jan 2012, 20:30
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no idea.

I can only think of 2 reasons.

1) There are fewer captains than the number required by GCAA. As a result each captain is flying 1.5 hours more than what is the law.

2) They just want to pass students so that they can go to the next stage and give Alpha more money. At the end when they will complete the training the weaker students who crashed for example may not get a job

I do not know. I have no contact with these students who crashed so I could be wrong. But, knowing alpha I would not be surprised if I am right!
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Congrats

To the first batch of MPLers from Alpha SHJ ...Hearty Congrats on your graduation and wish you ALL the very best on your line training.

Its great to see you guys in the flt ops and hear you on the radios these days looking forward for your release soon and swapping flts
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Moving on to other posts...

Its pretty amazing to see some posts how people are blaming "others" for their (lack of) judgement If you cannot take responsibility for your decisions now on ground, how on earth(or air) are you supposed to make decisions on a multi million $$$ plane with 160+ souls on board? food for thought.
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Fernandeztv are you a cadet of Alpha or in anyway connected with Alpha to pass on your judgement. We are stating facts which goes against the norms of a good aviation academy in training cadets to become competent pilots. If that was not the case why would the GCAA step in and shut down the academy for two months in Nov and Dec 2010. Now GCAA has closed Alphas flghtline and an air accident investigation has taken place as a result of which the core flying of four cadets was stopped midway and they have to fly to Austalia to complete the rest of their training. There have been two similar nature previous aircraft accidents reported at the flying school in March 2011 according to GCAA reports
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Three accidents already?!!??!! Wow!!!! Were they on solo flights? Dual? Or what???
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Old 7th Feb 2012, 17:17
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all solo but according to fernandez it is not alpha's fault! If it is not their fault then who's is it? Which flying school has its flying facilities shut?! or has its ground school closed down for 2 months?
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aakhan & honestpilot

So "honestpilot" talks abt some training accidents mentioned by aakhan and manages to infer that i have something to say about it? did i get it right.

Ok lets get this straight...

First i posted to congratulate the successful alpha MPL graduates who went thru some pretty difficult times to get their wings and a few years back i was in their shoes as well so can i not feel happy for them?

Second i found certain members blaming another member of this forum that they joined alpha only because of them and then go about blaming this member for misleading them etc...

While choosing a FTO you take decisions based on all available information but that does not relieve you of the responsibility of doing some homework on your own instead of just relying on what others have to say. Were the pros and cons weighed at that time or you just went by what the management had to say? Did someone really think that if they paid XXX AED then they will get to fly a big shiny jet?

I have no comments nor did i pass judgements on Alpha or any other FTO for that matter but i do believe firmly that anybody who makes a decision needs to be good enough to take responsibility for it. We all make mistakes now and then, bad decisions due to bad judgement but eventually that's how we gain experience.

Safe flts everyone.
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yes, i am glad for them and I hope that I can join their shoes one day. But do u think it is fair that the people like marlim only stat the pros and NO cons. If there are any then it is NOT alpha fault. Then who's is it? You want to blame the young pilot for a crash that was not his fault? If that was the case GCAA would not have banned alpha from flying in SHJ.

Alpha is not even honest about it. Like u said we all make mistakes. Well Alpha will make mistakes but yet they do not learn from it! Why should the students who join suffer?

When I joined Alpha I was not even aware of the fact that GCAA closed them down for 2 months! I was shocked to know that Alpha had 6 batches of students and had yet acquired NO planes! When I joined they only had 2!

Which flying school does that?!

Yes, I made a mistake that I joined Alpha. This is why I am here so that people have a better idea about the pros and cons of Alpha.

The instructors at Alpha are OK. Not bad, just OK. However the management is ****. Anyone could do a better job than them.
Answer this question

Which flying school allows their own authority to ban them from flying?! That is VERY embarrassing!
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Fernandeztv if you posted to congratulate the successful graduates you should just stick to it. Alphas responsibility is greater and questionable. If they were doing their job well why would GCAA step in twice once to shut their groundschool temporary for two months and then their flightline permanently. One cadet has only two hours of core flying left but needs to now travel all the way to Australia. Food for thought. As individuals we are responsible for our actions but we can be influenced by others to make wrong dicisions. That is what exactly has happened in my case. Malirm writes on behalf of Alpha carefully exaggerating everything in favour of Alpha and concealing their shortcomings. The hidden motive behind his regular updates is to increase the intake of Alpha. Tell me which institution should give the cadets contracts to sign four months after the commencement of the training when cadets have no choice. There were two cadets underage (less than 18) in my batch. The list goes on..... Well GCAA are approachable and very helpful
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Fernandez from ur first post u seem to blame the students and not alpha for their bad luck.

U seem to have ignored my questions for u which i asked a few posts back.

I am currently in Alpha and I am sure that NOT all of us will get a job with AA. As a result I am being forced to kiss my captains ass and also to backstab my friends.

It should NOT be like that. We are supposed to help each other. Sadly Alpha does not see it that way and just want to make money. They make some students fly 120 hours on the cessna to pass the first stage and others are removed after 35 hours. So tell me is that fair? I am sure that the students who failed after 35 hours could have finished the course are 120 hours but they were not given the chance! Why?

because alpha did not care about them. They were not in the first batch of students. every time i talk to the captains they only talk about the first batch and no one else! It is as if they were forced to pass everyone in that batch just to brag about them to new students!
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