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I made it to the flight school interview stage last year, with Skyborne, and had no further physics questions after the initial online numerical and verbal reasoning tests. When were yours? There were spatial awareness tests, reaction time tests and so on, but no physics. Were you with FTE Jerez, I know their tests were a little different.
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Ahh good news folks! I've just logged in to my BA careers portal, and believe I have been assigned to my school of choice! Previously, at the top of the page it just said 'Speedbird Pilot Academy'. Now it says 'Speedbird Pilot Academy - Skyborne'.
I think (hope) that is good news
Now to wait for the official email!
I think (hope) that is good news
Now to wait for the official email!
Now you've got 500 people checking (so glad that you posted this as mine has changed so I'm feeling very positive)
Thanks again
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What specifically is changing for you guys? When you log in, there are several things to click into. Is it inside the 'MY APPLICATIONS' section which would otherwise read 'Speedbird Pilot Academy (9296)', which now has the flight school name appended to the end?
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I'm hoping for the same. Although I have to say I feel a bit like Charlie Bucket when he thinks all the golden tickets have been located!
I'm C surname and submitted 29th April. So by the alphabet theory, not positive.
Would be really curious to see if anyone else's starts to change today, that would give me a bit of hope.
If not its back to the PPL and hard saving
I'm C surname and submitted 29th April. So by the alphabet theory, not positive.
Would be really curious to see if anyone else's starts to change today, that would give me a bit of hope.
If not its back to the PPL and hard saving
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Ahh good news folks! I've just logged in to my BA careers portal, and believe I have been assigned to my school of choice! Previously, at the top of the page it just said 'Speedbird Pilot Academy'. Now it says 'Speedbird Pilot Academy - Skyborne'.
I think (hope) that is good news
Now to wait for the official email!
I think (hope) that is good news
Now to wait for the official email!
Where in the portal do you see this? Is that under the 'Applications' section where it would usually say "Speedbird Pilot Academy (9296)"?
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If anyone has had theirs change noticeably today please do let us know! (As in, you checked earlier and it hadn't, but has been updated very recently)
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Glad to see the ball rolling on more applications
For those who have not had their application title change, try not to worry. I believe none of us have had emails yet. There will be a reason they said next week for emails; plenty of time to go!
Just for reference, my surname begins with ‘M’ and I submitted the PA exercise on 24th April.
For those who have not had their application title change, try not to worry. I believe none of us have had emails yet. There will be a reason they said next week for emails; plenty of time to go!
Just for reference, my surname begins with ‘M’ and I submitted the PA exercise on 24th April.
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Are folks seeing updates for both 'FTE Jerez' and 'Skybourne'? Saw one comment so far for 'FTE Jerez'.
The assessment dates for 'Skybourne' were scheduled for a week earlier than those dates for 'FTE Jerez', so wondering if maybe those are being processed first? Only bit of hope keeping me going at the moment as I selected FTE Jerez preference
The assessment dates for 'Skybourne' were scheduled for a week earlier than those dates for 'FTE Jerez', so wondering if maybe those are being processed first? Only bit of hope keeping me going at the moment as I selected FTE Jerez preference
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Are folks seeing updates for both 'FTE Jerez' and 'Skybourne'? Saw one comment so far for 'FTE Jerez'.
The assessment dates for 'Skybourne' were scheduled for a week earlier than those dates for 'FTE Jerez', so wondering if maybe those are being processed first? Only bit of hope keeping me going at the moment as I selected FTE Jerez preference
The assessment dates for 'Skybourne' were scheduled for a week earlier than those dates for 'FTE Jerez', so wondering if maybe those are being processed first? Only bit of hope keeping me going at the moment as I selected FTE Jerez preference
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Just have to hold on until told definitively either way..
May be that we’ve just been assigned a number to the application rather than alphabetical, and numbers 1-100 are dealt with by one project pilot, 101-200 by another etc. Or all the A’s being done by one person, B’s another…
They work through it and send rejections if its a straight no, theres a maybe pile for review, and yes goes to someone else to collate and stream to the flight school assessment.
I believe may BA have possibly had internal resourcing issues from speaking to someone, and the people reviewing these are also pilots required to fly doing this on the side
Who knows! All guesswork, BA said we’ll hear by next week and as hard as it is to to try and not be disheartened and fear the worse seeing others application change, just have to wait and see.
For reference I’m still waiting, submitted my application on the opening day, PA 26th, surname begins with C
May be that we’ve just been assigned a number to the application rather than alphabetical, and numbers 1-100 are dealt with by one project pilot, 101-200 by another etc. Or all the A’s being done by one person, B’s another…
They work through it and send rejections if its a straight no, theres a maybe pile for review, and yes goes to someone else to collate and stream to the flight school assessment.
I believe may BA have possibly had internal resourcing issues from speaking to someone, and the people reviewing these are also pilots required to fly doing this on the side
Who knows! All guesswork, BA said we’ll hear by next week and as hard as it is to to try and not be disheartened and fear the worse seeing others application change, just have to wait and see.
For reference I’m still waiting, submitted my application on the opening day, PA 26th, surname begins with C
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Nice way to think of it A320. Thank you.
All the best to those with a positive indication, and fingers crossed for the rest of us. Will keep checking throughout the day (and weekend inevitably)
All the best to those with a positive indication, and fingers crossed for the rest of us. Will keep checking throughout the day (and weekend inevitably)
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Anyone have a clue of how skybourne using 737 sims will apply for BA training ? Will completion of the course require then additional training on an A320 sim before you actually start working for BA?
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Glad to see the ball rolling on more applications
For those who have not had their application title change, try not to worry. I believe none of us have had emails yet. There will be a reason they said next week for emails; plenty of time to go!
Just for reference, my surname begins with ‘M’ and I submitted the PA exercise on 24th April.
For those who have not had their application title change, try not to worry. I believe none of us have had emails yet. There will be a reason they said next week for emails; plenty of time to go!
Just for reference, my surname begins with ‘M’ and I submitted the PA exercise on 24th April.
Also, a bit of context:
Surname B
Skyborne Preference
PA completed 27th April.
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Once you start with BA you will then undertake additional training on type (the A320) with BA type rating instructors/examiners to actually certify you for that aircraft.
This is the same for FTE Jerez students, they will just have the advantage of some familiarity with the A320 layout and some systems already/