L3 closing Bournemouth?
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L3 closing Bournemouth?
Hearing rumours of a staff meeting announcing this, and flight training to move to Cranfield and Portugal, anyone confirm?
Amazed it’s still going...
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Well you couldn't have tried harder to eff it up if it had been deliberate - that's true. My favourite was L3 enabling all their competitors by paying them to do the IR training L3 couldn't cope with. If there is a grown up from the American parent company watching some of those L3 managers might be hung out to dry without pensions.
Correct, Alex. Not fit for purpose. Instructors mainly good, management useless (and very greedy).
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Alex is totally correct, the management of L3 are a rare breed, displaying incompetence at it's highest level. The merry go around of academy directors which has been ongoing for the last five years should have been a warning sign. CTC use to be a great organisation well run and invariably ticked the boxes from a customer viewpoint. Sadly L3 did not understand the business they bought into and surrounded themselves with egos who told the senior management what they wanted to hear.
V sad as they are some very good people who worked/work at Bournemouth, Southampton and Hamilton.
V sad as they are some very good people who worked/work at Bournemouth, Southampton and Hamilton.
Tricky one! L3 toxic and a rip off, CAE certainly @ Oxford a shadow of its former self. Shame, Oxford has historically been celebrated as the premier ab initio school harking back to the 60s. Nearly all gone apart from minimal twin training.
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Yes it's still happening, end of June latest is what I've heard. The absence of any communication/timetable/plan should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with L3.
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Portugal possibly closing seems to be true. There was a all hands meeting there Yesterday and news coming from sources in U.K. stating the same fact. Possibly putting that work to the US base.
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Closing Portugal? Interesting move, they should have never bought an airfield in the middle of nowhere it in the first place. Where are they going to do all the EASA training now? Ireland, Florida or can it all be done in the UK? Closure of New Zealand was a shame, maybe the New Zealand government should have been less pro active with border control. But a fair weather base in a country with almost the same weather as the UK, is not really a viable option.
Personally I think Cranfield is a much better choice than Bournemouth, they should be able to get more training route options from there and a lot less training time will be lost because of commercial traffic.
Personally I think Cranfield is a much better choice than Bournemouth, they should be able to get more training route options from there and a lot less training time will be lost because of commercial traffic.
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All L3 training being moved to Florida. No EASA or CAA approvals in their Sandford operation. Cranfield doesn’t have long. L3 winding everything down in Europe.
They won’t be missed. Probably the best contribution to the quality of UK flight training they could make.
They won’t be missed. Probably the best contribution to the quality of UK flight training they could make.