Joining RAF at 37
 

Is it possible? Am I too old?
Currently 737-300 FO in Europe, EU/Canadian/ICAO licence. Always wanted to join the RAF but was turned down at the dreaded careers office way back when... well 1990... b*st*rds... I suppose a rerun is out of the question?
Obviously for transport aircrew.
PS. Do they also hold my records from 1990? One would hope not :)

No chance, unless you fancy being a Chaplain, Doctor or Dentist.

Or have a previous recent military background.

Nice to see someone trying to jump from airlines into the RAF:) Maybe the grass isn't so green on the civvy-side.

Join Net Jets!!! Will be just like the RAF as most of our pilots are jumping ship to there!!!!:D

A First Officer leaving the airlines to join the RAF..........possibly this post is 3 days late.................

Not a Virgin alco-pilot by any chance??!!:=

37? Shouldn't you have grown out of ideas like this by now? :)

Come to Canada and join the CAF. We don't have age rules and will accept folks who qualify into their forties. All we ask is that you are able to do the job and complete minimum required service of 9 years after wings.

One can't help thinking that the reaction in the AFCO might be the same as in 'Lethal Weapon 2' when Danny Glover goes to the (apartheid era) South African embassy in California and asks to emigrate to South Africa!

NetJets will indeed soon be like the RAF - I understand that 83% of the current Nimrod QFIs are leaving to join?

83% ? That's quite precise. ;)

Sounds like one of those "72% of statistics are made up" :ok:

Well, it is a proven fact that just under 3/4 of the students that leave school can not add up.


Mind you the other 50% are just as bad. :)

Nice idea, but can you afford the pay cut?

Flash8,
you don't fancy a job on the Nimrod do you?
Reckon the RAF will snap you up if you fancy instructing and will sign on till 55....;)
Just a thought!
In all seriousness, though, why don't you give it a go? Plenty more strange things go on. Reckon you'll find the pay smarts a tad (depends on contract) but they're facing such an egress of experience that they won't be able to dismiss your application without due thought.
BEags,
My sources tell me that the percentage of PVR on the OCU is higher than that even, but I stand to be corrected.:\

At the recent Netjets promotion spiel/recruiting drive in Northern Scotland it was surprising how many Nimrod boys were there in their smart suits with bundles/scraps of paper in their hands! Few GR lads there too. Why shouldn't we.
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Hansard debate
 

2 Nov 2000 : Column 874 More and more people are taking up the opportunity of full-time reserve service. Well over 1,000 individuals are now serving on those terms. The second Hercules into Sierra Leone, when our forces deployed there so successfully in May, had an FTRS pilot.

Presumably ex-QSP?

Why not go for it?
 

I`m 43 and fancy a career change, pref rear crew in the military rotary section. Having done 20 years emergency services, i`d be tempted but know that age is a major factor. I don`t see why as most people have matured and are still keen to put the effort in to achieve their goals.

Fellas, there is a reason more people leave the military to go to the airlines than the other way around. I'd bear that in mind. However, good luck to you if that's what you want; and it means more airline jobs for me!!!:)

Can a civvy (full-time turbo-prop capt) sign up for FTRS and get to fly Hercs when needed and keep his current job?

Cloud Chaser, no.

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