Alpha Aviation Academy

[aakhan]

To the future cadets who might be thinking of joining Alpha be warned that the fees for Alpha is not just DH 440,000 as told by the authorities to lure you into the programme. Four months after the commencement of training comes the contract which also states the additional charges
1 Theoretical ground school instruction Dh 2300 per week
2 Core flying skills Dh 800 per hour
3 Basic simulator flying instruction Dh 800 per hour
4 A32O Ground School Dh 200 per hour
5 Intermediate Simulator Flying instruction Dh 2200 per hour
6 Advanced Simulator Flying instruction Dh2200 per hour
7 Aircraft Base Training Dh 35,000
Be well prepared to foot the bill according to the whims and fancies of Alpha. They keep you in the dark initially

[malirm]

Thanks fernandeztv

On behalf of my Batchmates & I...we thank you for the Congs & Greetings really happy to see you around looking forward to see you in the Cockpit someday (or Night) The Line is filled with great experiences...

As for my forum-mates, guys, I hope the best for you (the successful & the unsuccessful), for those who are successful...I'd rather be focusing on my training & get out of such a mentality...although you belief that what you are doing is right...

Cheers

[honestpilot]

lol marlim i have lost all hope on Alpha.

I am shortly leaving for AAPA. I just do not think that Alpha will help my if i do badly.

I still do not understand why past students got 120 hours in the cessna and cadets like adi got removed after only completing about 30 hours of flying!

I am scared ****less about what will happen in Aus!

[Left Wing]

honestpilot study hard stay focus on your flying.... dont waste time on this webiste.
If you need info ask your FI in AAPA, they are there to teach you to fly and become a good pilot.
STUDY STUDY STUDY !.no one said it gonna be easy..

happy landings

If you sign up for MBA course and not study .. or work hard ... and just hope for "good luck" .. you will not be a successful manager..

same goes for flying.... hard work makes a good pilot !..

[Taras B]

honestpilot

Probably a better word than 'study' is "prepare"... don't go into the air unprepared to practice the skills that you will need to learn and demonstrate. Yes, read the books, but also sit in a chair or in the cockpit on the ground and "act out" what you will be doing, what your hands and feet will be doing. Flying is both a motor skill and a cognitive skill. Talk to an imaginary ATC so you get used to making standard callouts.

If you can arrange to have your pre-flight briefing the evening before your morning flight, I guarantee you will have dreams about the upcoming sortie. That's a good thing.

Chew gum if your instructor doesn't mind. It will settle your stomach, especially in the first few sorties, lessen any anxiety you may have, keep your mouth wet and help focus your mind. Even monkeys in stressful situations will do that chewing motion...it is a coping behavior that is hard-wired into us, too.

Your brain will be furiously consuming glucose during your time in the air. Drink a half can of Coke before you start your preflight check (then have a pee just before you get into the cockpit). The mild combination of caffeine and glucose will activate your higher learning centers and switch you ON for learning and doing. Drink the other half Coke after you land, it will help you recover. Make no mistake, flying a training aircraft puts tremendous stress on the body and mind, whether you are aware of it or not.

To all the cadets who wrote to me about what to eat the mornings that you fly - I cannot overemphasize the importance of having a low-fat protein/complex carbohydrate breakfast each morning. Eggs/wholemeal toast; beans/wholemeal toast; oatmeal with raisins and nuts; banana milkshake; peanut butter & banana sandwich on wholemeal...you get the idea. Pop Tarts, corn flakes or white rice won't work for you. Protein deficiency = learning deficiency. Eat lite, just enough to satisfy. You can always have a mid-morning snack later.

Since your sorties will be limited, make it a goal to do the best you can on each one. Some will be tough for reasons beyond your control (people usually start well, dip, and then recover in their human performance...don't get discouraged during this natural J-curve, just keep on movin', don't stop).

Aussies are a rough and tough kind of people. They are not what I would describe as thenthitive. But they have good hearts. They will help you get where you need to go--but they will not carry you there.

Core flying should be fun! Enjoy it.

[honestpilot]

thanks for the great advice taras B

btw Left. Wing u really think that considering all students in our batches study and work hard and get the license will get a job?!

Hell no. I work hard but i still doubt that I will get a place in AA unless they really need pilots.

[aakhan]

Left Wing you are insulting the hard working cadet who got only 35 hours of flying in Australia. According to reports sent by Alpha he was a hard working cadet. He payed Dh 150,000 for 80 hours of flying but got only 35 while Alpha pocketed rest of the money. This is day light robbery. In desperation he contacted GCAA. Left Wing I would like to know what you have to say to this?

[malirm]

Goodluck

Best of luck to the rest of the MPL cadets in their training stages I'm sure that it became clearer & clearer for AAGs UAE MPL training path (training wise...not contract wise )

As far as I got to know, ABY will be receiving 4 to 6 A320s (as per our last meeting with the Management)...this year...then Sharklets next year + approx 20 destinations

As for you honest pilot...be positive, it'll for sure come back to you. As for training...ask the previous batches who were there for tips & what to expect...etc. I was lucky enough to meet the MPLers from the Philippines before I left to Clark...let me know if you can't find them or don't know whom to talk to & we'll try to arrange something with one of them

Keep Up the good work AND...think positively (I did & it came back to me )

[RP-C000]

While attending the graduation ceremony, Captain Mohammed Ahmed, Director Operations at Air Arabia and Mustafa Yusuf, Vice-President, (MENA) AAG UAE said “ ” Newly graduated MPL pilots will now join Air Arabia as First Officers and will fly the carrier’s Airbus A-320 state-of-the-art airplanes.

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[honestpilot]

what?! how much experience do they have? I for one would not be comfortable with that posistion! We are supposed to become a second officer first and then a first officer after we have experience.

Although flying in a sim in experience flying in real life is just not the same!

This is looking very very fishy!

[risk]

Alpha is changing its entry selection process from 01st of March...

[honestpilot]

lol and how?

I have seen the person who is involved with the testing helping out the students by giving the answers to them!

He does not care who gets in since he gets money for every student that joins Alpha!

[aakhan]

Thus Alpha agrees that the entrance assessments to Alpha uptill now had intentionally been made easy to maximise the intake to Alpha. GCAA after receiving complains from cadets must have asked Alpha to make their selection process more stringent. So no credit goes to Alpha. What the honest pilot has just stated is true that the admin staff who is involved with the testing process gives out the answers to the cadets undergoing the testing because he gets a commission on each cadet who joins Alpha

[RP-C000]

if you have proof of such activitiies then pls go in person and infrom the new Head Of Training.. take action and get it fixed..

[honestpilot]

how can i get this proof? It is what i saw. I have no video evidence!

[Left Wing]

no one is asking you for video or finger prints mate... just go and talk if you feel something is wrong... no point you moaning on this website and doing nothing..

[aakhan]

Well I too have seen it with my own eyes. It is the authority and resposibility of the head of the ground school to question the person concerned and sort it out if he is really interested and not of an ordinary cadet who does not know his own future.

[malirm]

@ Honest Pilot

Exactly...the same as I did, I went & spoke with some people at AAG (although I'm not an AAG cadet anymore) about some other stuff that got dealt with on the spot & some other that took time...don't wait until GCAA or ABY to come & find out...it'll just affect your/our training (delays), but to AAG, its another day

If you are afraid to do so (if you think AAG will just screw with your training because of that), let me know on this thread or by PMing me...I'm out of the AAG system & I can help as an X-cadet...I still know some people here & there as you know

Taras B...waiting for the continuation of the story...I hope that it has a Happy Ending

[honestpilot]

so when did u complain?
Maybe a year back. You joined some 2 years back from what I know. If u complained about the problems say 1 year back then Alpha has not done anything.

This is why i cannot be bothered. I know that Alpha will not do anything.

If they wanted to improve they would not have had 3 prop strikes. All the 3 accidents were exactly the same reason. They would not have made their instructors fly more than they can by law. Any idiot can follow that rule. Well anyone apart from Alpha.

If they cannot follow a simple law laid out by ICAO and GCAA do u really think that they will listen to me?

And marlim there is no need to be sarcastic to Taras!

[RP-C000]

honestpilot.. pls go and approach the new HOT, he will listen to you... and offer advise as well.

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