CTW
 

I am likewise leaving the forces to pursue a career in civil aviation, although I am not a military pilot. I found the Career Transition Workshop to be really useful. It is 3 days long and helps you to adjust to civvy life. Particularly impressive was the CV writing module which you might think is easy to do. However it isn't easy to do well. The course I did was run by a woman who is a very experienced HR expert. I have to be honest I was only really looking on it as 3 days off work (I have a very co-operative Boss!) but I learnt loads and thought it to be really worth attending.
Aside from that, I start my ATPL course during my 5 week resettlement period, which means that I can claim all sorts of subsistence type payments during that 5 weeks and keep getting paid until the end of my terminal leave (nearly 2 months into the course). I am having a bit of a snag with ELCs as my course is an integrated (please don't shout at me) one which means that technically I should only receive one payment of £1000 for the whole thing despite it falling over a 3 financial year period.
Hope that helps?

4 weeks in India all expenses paid and rate 1's and separation pay as well.:)

Oh and an H&S course at Tidworth. Good VFM.

Did MCC at Oxford. Not particularly useful but it didn't tax the brain too much!

6 weeks of PVR-porridge at Binnsworth doing a non-job (sorted it out in 3 days, then just twiddled my thumbs) but the chap I worked for knew that I'd been shafted by a vindictive little $...

Then a summer doing nothing apart from 'working in my own time' as previously approved, so quite legally earning money as a 'part-time consultant' when not flying puddlejumpers or enjoying the freedom - and still on Aunty Bettie's salary. Apart from one wasted day at Aldershot learning nothing useful, that is. What an utter dump that place is - I'd expected all white kerbstones and spit and polish.... but it was like the worst sink housing estate imagineable.

28 days before leaving, permitted to take on full-time work. I think I was staying in a 4-star hotel on the shore of Lake Constance on my actual exit date.

Never did get a farewell interview from the Stn Cdr - nothing in it for him, I guess....

I had a fairwell (sic) interview when I left. Can't remember his name and he certainly didn't welcome me back either unlike his two predecessors who I still see from time-to-time.

Had one 1369 interview (not) before a sqn cdr departed. The message was he would be available from x to y for 1369 debriefs 'if we wanted'. I exercise the do nothing option. Even got a reminder call and a shocked look when I said thank you but no thank you. How can you sit with a straight face when you have no repect for the guy?

Can't remember the detail but by judicious use of SLCs, ELCs, resettlement, leave etc, I'd done Bristol Groundschool, Multi Engine Piston Class Rating and IR (Oxford) and MCC Course (Atlantic - Coventry) by the time the calendar said I'd left.

And I got the 'valedictory letter' that I'd specifically asked not to have!:ugh: