At the risk of repeating myself....

:ok:

Crag, I read your question. I was doing a Michael Howard on you. I'd prefer to remain annonymous in that respect, so I was ignoring your question.

spaceman1000, if your ever stuck for anywhere to park you big train...;)

Well when operators are offering for trans- atlantic train journeys, they will be swamped with CVs of people with low hours willing to pay for their 'type rating' who know they will be spending xmas away from home in a supersonic train travelling below the atlantic.

Strap spaceman to the rails and TGV right over him!
(Moaning TW*T!)

Accept my apologies...
 

I would like to offer my sincere apologies for Spaceman's bad sense of humour.

As a frog myself I thought it was something I had to do.

Spaceman, l'humour pipi-caca, c'est vrai qu'il nous a fait sourire au debut mais la, je pense qu'on peux se dire "tu", t'es lourd.

J

Spaceman

One word mate!! Trafalgar!!:E

Now F**k off!!!

How is the typerating on the 'bus going Spaceman ? ............

Or have you decided that a type is not worth the cash (30,000 E)

Does the TGV have a co-pilot? or is it fully automated

Does the train have an auto-throttle?

JonJon

I have had French students on my class, as well as those of former French empire. They have had a fine sense of humour, even when I wind them up about France (the Greenwich Meridian is a fine source of comment, as is the kilometre, in Navigation lectures). We know Spaceman is not typical, and nor is Chirac ;)

One thing's for sure, Spaceman is an expert at rattling the monkeys cage!:} :} :}

Olympics
 

Spaceman

Did you see that London won the 2012 Olympics, and not Paris

Something to do with London having a better transport system apparently

surely this has to be a troll?
every thread is the same old sh*t over and over again, getting a kick out of starting an argument etc.

Mind you tho, you are guaranteed a laugh!

Well done London

Of course it's a troll - it's name is ronchonner. This particular individual has been winding up the more gullible members of Pprune for many a long year. It's comforting to know that there continue to be so many people who are prepared to be made such fools of - the industry would not be the same without them.

Spaceman1000 is obviously French. They can't even get the Olympics, let alone flying jobs!

Spaceman is Ronchonner and I applaud him for keeping the faith!!

There are far too many seriarses out there who can't see his humour for what it is. Keep it up, boy!! You do make me laugh..

LOST

He's sad but he had become a slight part of the fabric here.

Fact is jobs are abounding at the moment. I expect a slight hiatus and then after 6 months we will be back to ful throttle hiring.

It seems to work like this. There is a recession/Sept11th event and pilots are out of work. It takes a good year for the exerienced and talented ones to find work. Then for maybe two years things progress at glacial pace as the airlines settle into their restructured state. Then a trickle of recruitment begins - experience levels are quite high.

We then reach the current phase where a great many airlines have not recruited lavishly but have expanded and are thus at breaking point and NEED crews yesterday. There being a wide and deep reservoir of legally qualified people out there they have little difficulty in opening the taps. Hence certain well known British airlines are recruiting dozens every month through various schemes which place a significant burden of risk and expenditure by the individual recruit.

This will ease the situation and recruitment will slow (this is where we are about now). Many Wannabes hovering on the edges of training will now commit as hiring seems good. In about a year from now there will be a glut of people about to finish training with low hours.

About two years from now recruiting will be at full throttle again as the whole industry expands - not just the low cost carriers plus Virgin.

If you started training 12 - 18 months ago you may have timed it just right to enter the industry now/6months ago. If you start today you may well catch the glut. If you start in a years time you may just hit the sweet spot.

All this of course is no more than a horoscope written by me. But this does have the air of 1997 about it at the moment. Which is very similar to the situation in 1987. Beyond that I am too young to remember or have been interested. History repeats itself and I can't overstress how important it is that you acquaint yourself with how the industrys hiring cycle has worked before.

Many Wannabes don't and doom themselves to be a victim of past mistakes.

Cheers

WWW

WWW,
An interesting and informative post - you just have to wade through ronchonner / spaceman's buffoonery to reach it. Got to admit he makes me laugh though - esp. how he so easily winds up wannabees.

spaceman,

It's no surprise that you can't find a job, learn to write decent english first!

I think that he dlibratly rite like that. Chances are that he mkes quite useful posts in another guise! WWW would know, he is privy to IP numbers and I suspect the computer ability to link names!