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Yep I agree with that sentiment. Sounds like staff to me. 98000 for a modular course with distance learning for the atpls and thats minimum. MCC/JOC extra onto that price? Resits ? hours over? Its more expensive than Oxford. You can get the same licence for half that cost ? By doing your ppl then doing bristol groundschool for atpls then finding a good training provider in England for a cpl/meir and another for an mcc. If you were to speak in rough figures 1. ppl(anywhere) cost you roughly 7k 2. bristol gs(atpls) cost you 2k 3. hours building 6k-7k 4. cpl/meir 20/25k(BCFT or PAT bmouth or Multiflight(leeds) or Stapleford) and an mcc on a 737 -200 for 2500 ----All rough sterling prices (roughly 40k to 47k all in) You would have saved about 20 to 30 k for the same book. And in this economic climate you have the same chance as the next guy with the exact same book as you of getting a job.

EI-022 and antonov09,

Firstly sorry for the lateness of my reply havent been on this in a while.
No im not PTC staff I assure you! I paid them 75k(euro) for atpl's distance learing, 120hrs hour building, combined CPL/MEP & MEIR. I had a PPL before joining PTC.

Antonov09 as I said in my previous post yes extra hours and resits do cost extra and thats where guys get caught. Thankfully I got through the course without having to do extra hours or resits not through skill through hard work. PTC make you work a lot harder because they do everything a lot quicker as I said CPL in 3 and a half weeks and MEIR in 5.

Im just giving my two cents on what I though of the school and my experience, take it or leave it but as I said before unlike a lot of people who post about PTC I have actually been through the school and I assure you I am not staff.

Just seen this on PPrune!

"The Integrated Airline Pilot Programme at Pilot Training College"

PTC in Waterford are offering an Intergrated ATPL course so they say. This is actually a Modular course. The way they market there school has alot to be said for. I have a freind there who has just finished and the still no Interview as she was told and stated to be in her 13th month!!!!!!!

As an ex-Integrated student myself, I would want to make sure that the school I go to to attend an intergrated course is actually integrated! Can you imagine how much of a fool you would look like in an airline interview and the airline turn around and say to you "but, you didnt train Integrated, you trained modular"...:ugh:

No I think you will find they have approval from the IAA and it is an integrated course...and not the airline pilot program which is modular run like an integrated.
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Has anyone from the UK had any problems with their IAA issued licence if they are not working in Ireland?

I am due to go over to PTC mid december for a medical and pilot skills assessment for the integrated course with the look to start on the january or march course.

I have PPL experiance however i never completed the exams thus did not get the licence.

I understand that tis course takes me right up to a stage where i can start type ratings is this correct. Have there been any problems converting IAA to UK-CAA and does this cost alot extra.

Basically is the €79500 going to turn into €89500 by hidden charges that i am not being told about.

Anyones help would be appreciated.

I have heard quite a few good things about PTC, however it seams that when ever anyone praises a company they are very quickly accused of being staff, as if you are not alowed to think the company is good.

Any genuine info would be appreciated.
Thanks

Many thanks for the info.

PTC must now have a deal with a place in Dublin as the MCC is now included in the course and is done last. i believe its simcorp?

have you had much success in securing a aviation job? alot of people are aiming for airline FO, but do many people getin to private companies, smaller exec planes etc... i guess the type rating would be cheaper for those as well. appol is i am covering a different thread on that last part, if anyone has a link to the relevent thread i would be greatful.

Thanks

€79,500???? Without an MCC? If you can afford that then surely €10,000 here or there is not really an issue!

79500 with MCC and yer 10k is just my pocket change i guess so dont know what iam worried about :)

found a place in cyprus, works with OxfordAA, there 59k but no MCC and no accom. but you end up with a UK-CAA rather than IAA

Alikikev Check your PM's

Hey all,

Just to jump in on the MCC comments, I completed my training in PTC as you will find earlier in this tread and also completed the MCC/JOC with Simtech. Very good course, instruction is excellant all very highly experienced instructors for example Aer Lingus, Ryanair, Aer Arann and Virgin Atlantic pilots. Everything ran on time and on schedule.

There was 4 in my MCC/JOC class and 3 of us have now got jobs with airlines(or airline I should say:)) and I think I speak for all 3 of us when I say the training, pre interview help etc offered by Simtech is second to none.

Well worth a look.

Would that be with FR?

Nearly There,

It would and there has been others too recently that werent in my class but who also did the PTC & Simtech route.

Im saying this to convey that these two places have high standards and there graduates are getting jobs.

alikikev

If you don't want to go in the airlines do not do an integrated course. Modular is much preferred in most of the GA world, and it is cheaper. Some GA companies won't even look at integrated graduates until they have done some more challenging flying.