It is a fact that those least able to give an objective assessment of a FTO are the students currently undergoing a course - unless they have previous experience of other FTOs operating in the same market. Inevitably, students' opinions of their FTO are subjective and largely based on the FTO's own marketing hype.

As for the CAA publishing figures of who got what jobs from which school, I'm afraid that's pretty much imposssible. Most jobs are obtained by people long after they've left their FTO, at a distance where the particular FTO is no longer relevant to the issue. To relate the jobs to the FTOs would be at best misleading. As we know from students' experience at Oxford, the temptation for the schools to claim credit for students' own job-searching efforts is already sometimes too strong to resist; 'official' statistics of the kind you're asking for, however misleading, would make that deception easier...

As in all things, buyer beware!

Scroggs

Quote from that Oxford MD:

As of this morning 1 st April: 7 Seneca aircraft are fully operational with an expectation of 9 aircraft available for training by Monday 4 th April and then up to a strength of 14 aircraft by the 8 th April. 2 additional aircraft will be added to the fleet week commencing 11 th April with a final aircraft added at the end of the month bringing the OAT Seneca fleet to a total of 17 aircraft by the end of April.

OAT Fleet Mix – Week commencing 4 th April 2005

Seneca II ---------------------------------------------- 9 Aircraft

Seneca III --------------------------------------------- 5 Aircraft

OAT students, i am aware that you have all been warned to keep your `gobs shut` over this one but if you can post, was this delivered?

I believe so father murry.

I for one commend OAT on this. This was a unique issue and many other FTO's with such a large fleet would not have had the resources to get a problem of this scale resolved.

Glad I'm here......