Which flight trainning school to choose????
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Well that got some bad feedback for myself. I see the current airline pilots situation is bad and I also see that they wouldnt want a influx of cheap pilots. I say stay away from the states because you learn in perfect weather, which is good and bad at the same time. I did my entire ppl in jan and flying in the **** i believe has made me a better pilot. I am just finishing my atpls off at the moment and have as sick as it sounds enjoyed them. if you have the money i say go for it as sometime in the next year or so the market will be improving, there are even small signs of growth even now.
BCFT is where I am training and I enjoy it here, the jetline course is good and i should be done by the spring. I am more than aware that it will be an uphill struggle to find a job but im willing to go anywhere in the world for one.
Do hours in the states im off soon to do 70 hours flying from palm beach to san diego and back again. i would advise doing your ppl in europe though.
this is just my advice and my route though, people can slander all they want but they have all got there own opinions and have all taken there own routes. all i say is go for it as flying is the best thing i have ever done.
BCFT is where I am training and I enjoy it here, the jetline course is good and i should be done by the spring. I am more than aware that it will be an uphill struggle to find a job but im willing to go anywhere in the world for one.
Do hours in the states im off soon to do 70 hours flying from palm beach to san diego and back again. i would advise doing your ppl in europe though.
this is just my advice and my route though, people can slander all they want but they have all got there own opinions and have all taken there own routes. all i say is go for it as flying is the best thing i have ever done.
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Are you speaking from experience, have you actually done any flying in the States yourself? Considering the very extreme weather conditions that can be encountered there, this is a broad statement to make.
Please elaborate on what s**t it was that made you a better pilot? Presumably s**t that was within the limits of your PPL license of course!
Please tell me where the growth is so I can point my unemployed, type rated, unfrozen atpl holding friends in that direction.
Does this include yourself, since as you say bcft is a modular type course / school? By this statement, if the industry does improve, and jobs begin to open up, the airlines should overlook you and opt for the integrated graduates who paid a higher price for training? By what you are saying, they paid more so are deemed better pilots?
Well thank you for your predictions / advice / knowledge / bcft marketing tomgee88, I think we are all now a little wiser for having an industry expert in our midst. Have you considered that everyone has individual circumstances and reasons which may influence where is best to conduct flight training? Great advice for the masses though! 
If you're going to enlighten us all with your "sweeping" statements (as someone correctly said earlier in thread), then please provide some facts and / or personal experience for it to be deemed anything more than an uneducated opinion.
I say stay away from the states because you learn in perfect weather
I did my entire ppl in jan and flying in the **** i believe has made me a better pilot
there are even small signs of growth even now
they wouldnt want a influx of cheap pilots
i would advise doing your ppl in europe though.
If you're going to enlighten us all with your "sweeping" statements (as someone correctly said earlier in thread), then please provide some facts and / or personal experience for it to be deemed anything more than an uneducated opinion.
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What is wrong with telling everyone our own (personally experienced) views on flying schools?
If it's personal experience (and can be proved), what's everyone so scared of?
Paris...
I went to OFT and had a rough time. A lot of it was my own fault. I chose the option to do the whole PPL in 2 weeks (don't think this option still exists!). This means extreme everything. Even with studying before you get there and just doing one exam per day, you have so much flying to do in such a short amount of time and this is soooo mentally tiring when you can't yet fly! I remember I was getting about 4 hours sleep a day. Having to get up at 5 to make a VFR flight plan, call the weather people (who are excellent, this should be a basic requirement worldwide), get to the aircraft for 6 and pre-flight it. Go up with an instructor that doesn't want to be there.
Anyway, I digress. I could go on but don't have time.
If you have more time - take a month - do it at a leasurely pace and you should be ok. They have plenty of aircraft, reasonable condition. If you use Kissimmee as a base, there are plenty of things to do and plenty of other people around. Like I said, I chose the wrong formula, one aircraft, one instructor and one airfield (a way away and we were alone)!
I am thinking of going to EFT now (haven't been totally put off Florida) but don't go in Summer... serious thunderstorms _every_ afternoon!
If it's personal experience (and can be proved), what's everyone so scared of?
Paris...
I went to OFT and had a rough time. A lot of it was my own fault. I chose the option to do the whole PPL in 2 weeks (don't think this option still exists!). This means extreme everything. Even with studying before you get there and just doing one exam per day, you have so much flying to do in such a short amount of time and this is soooo mentally tiring when you can't yet fly! I remember I was getting about 4 hours sleep a day. Having to get up at 5 to make a VFR flight plan, call the weather people (who are excellent, this should be a basic requirement worldwide), get to the aircraft for 6 and pre-flight it. Go up with an instructor that doesn't want to be there.
Anyway, I digress. I could go on but don't have time.
If you have more time - take a month - do it at a leasurely pace and you should be ok. They have plenty of aircraft, reasonable condition. If you use Kissimmee as a base, there are plenty of things to do and plenty of other people around. Like I said, I chose the wrong formula, one aircraft, one instructor and one airfield (a way away and we were alone)!
I am thinking of going to EFT now (haven't been totally put off Florida) but don't go in Summer... serious thunderstorms _every_ afternoon!
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What is wrong with telling everyone our own (personally experienced) views on flying schools?
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Right have you nothing better to do than pick, I flown in the states although before I was licenced and with my uncle and we had fantastic weather for out trip, it was great, clear skys little wind friendly and open airfields, a very pleasurable experience. I however would not want to train there, i know that they get serve weather i used to live in the states, it is very easy going flyig out there and for training at least for me I do not feel that that is good. I need pressure to the best and find flying with uk airspace as far more stressful. But I cannot emphasize this enough, this is my opinion and my choice, my route for training. The reason for this thread is so that people can help this chap decide what is the best option for his training, I am not telling him what to do or where to do it, I simply voicing my opinion and what I have found, for me the states wasnt an option for him it maybe. In my opinion I would stay away from states, even though it is fun flying out there and very laid back, however for me i thought that may have an adverse effect on me coming back to england and dealing with english weather and procedures. I also wanted to do the equiviliant of an AB course so i chose BCFT as I could do it all in one place for what i could afford. I am not a spoilt rich kid, i do not have parents who have the £90k to pay for me to go Oxford or FTE or another integrated provider. I had £47,000 all earnt by me, I worked hard after school to get that money and believe that the training i receive at BCFT is no worse or better than any of the integrated providers and think at oxford and such places you only pay for the name. I believe i get more experience on my path but yet again i find my self saying this to avoid repercussions , this is my opinion and my route every one has there own to take, i found this to work for me. I hope you find the route for you.
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hi
im 16 years old, and i already started my private pilot training. it turns out though, that i am color deficient, so i dont know if i should continue to get my commercial licence.
what do you think? would i be able to get a stable job?
im 16 years old, and i already started my private pilot training. it turns out though, that i am color deficient, so i dont know if i should continue to get my commercial licence.
what do you think? would i be able to get a stable job?
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Im not sure about the Canadian Aviation Authority but I know Europe you cant hold a class one medical and maybe even the class two if you are color blind which means you cant fly solo. Sorry to say that bud.
