Stapleford flight center.

[aviationdreams91]

Some comparisons and experience

Hi Elly , let me say my experience hope it is useful and compare a little bit between stapleford and others ..... i have been searching for flying schools to start from zero to atpl for months now and Stapleford was the best in the uk !! i have went to cabair , BCFT ( bournemouth ), bristol , oxford and i checked evrything there so i think i can compare very good . i will write in points to be easier to compare .

1) Stapleford has a very large fleet including more than 40 aircraft wich no other place have it with this variety as they have the C152 , piper arrow , piper warrior , Sceneca , and the D42 wich is a great aircraft to fly
( Compared to oxford, they have only the Cessna's , warrior , sceneca , so they dont hae the D42 which is a very big advantage to stapleford (
NB: to b fair the C152's used for the ppl is a little bit old but flying wise no problems and will be great to fly them )

2)The location of stapleford is one of the best locations in the uk to train in , b cuz around the airfield there is their uncontrolled airpsoace and also there is the controlled airspace near central london and essex .
also for the location ,l it is suited between 3 big ariports like heathrow , gatwick and stansted so a lot of traffic to deal with .
wen i flew the C152 tehr i spotted the Emirates A380 lol
NB: it is less than 60 min driving from central london !! ( the point is u need a car )

3)They have two runways asphlat one and grass one .
(the asphalt one isn't equipped for the ILS , so they use Southend airpot , so u have an advantage ther )

4)very high pass rates .

5) very good recruiting record to graduates ( u can check their site )

6)Instructors are the best !! very professional , kind , down to earth.

7) 99% postive reviews

This what i concluded from all my visits and questions .
hope this helps evryone
thx,
Mina

[Leezyjet]

5) very good recruiting record to graduates ( u can check their site )

That list on their website isn't very long considering the number of people that train there, and looking at some of the names, it goes back a number of years to when times were good.

It is also worth bearing in mind that Stapleford offer little to no further help and assistance in finding a job once you are out of the door, unlike the other "big" schools in the country so I would guess most of those people on that list have probably found their own jobs once they left which makes it a bit of a cheek to put them on there.

I don't even know if Stapleford actually have any contacts these days with any airlines (they used to punt Ryanair and Astraeus in the past, but that was it), as you often see airlines stating they will recruit low hours students from CTC or Oxford, yet you never see any airline claim that about Stapleford and Stapleford never offer to put you forward or assist you at all - or maybe they do just they didn't with me or anyone I trained with, whilst Oxford are still assisting those who finished 18 months - 2 years ago to find what little jobs there are.

[aviationdreams91]

Unifroms

BTW regarding the unifroms . does SFC offer their uniform ?? or students buy them from anywhere , and when is it essentially needed to be worn in training .