Where to get experience?

[ECHIE]

I finished my JAA ATPL and searching for my first job as a pilot. The companies are requesting experience what I don't have. I would like to know where I can get experience or where I could apply with my fozen ATPL. Also possiblities at airlines where you have to pay for your own training cost, I would like to know more about it.

Thanks.

[Dufus]

Hi ECHIE,

Read the thread called "The harsh reality", that should give you a few ideas.

Cheers

[OBK!]

CTC Aviation offer a good scheme where you pay for an airline course, and if you complete it sucessfully, they try and get you engaged with airlines such as JMC/easyJet/Monarch etc. There is a tough selection process for it I have been told, but it's also what I am aiming for when I have finished my ATPLs!

Good luck.

P.s - don't think I can submit there website on here...

[foghorn]

The cheek with the CTC ATP scheme is that these days they make you cough up £6,000 for their 'AQC' course without having a guarantee of a place on the ATP scheme: they make the AQC course the final stage of their selection. So it's a bit of a cash cow for them.

They are also rather circumspect about just how many people are swimming in their pool.

Having said that, low hours people have been regularly placed with major UK airlines through the scheme, in fact, ATP people were just about the only non-type-rated pilots that have been hired by UK airlines over the last 12 months.

So you could end up with another expensive piece of paper. Or you could end up with a very good airline job.

Like all things in aviation it's a costly gamble.

[faacfi]

catch 22

no experience, no job...no job,no experience.
wellcome in the CATCH 22 !