FTE Assessment
 

Hi,

I'm due to sit the Assessment exam in FTE 20th of March. I never did physics in school but i've started 1 on 1 grinds with a friend of mine. I just want to make sure what I'm spending my time on is relevant to the assessment itself and not wasted as FTE is the school I have my mind set on.
Any insight, tips or advice would be much appreciated please :D :ok:

From memory the assessments were almost exactly like the pre guidance material supplied!
But there is more questions and they do ask some things that require you to use the guidance material in a different light, so keep open minded and stay focused, they aren't that hard!

The Pilapts you cannot really study for, it's about your reaction times and the way your brain handles tasks.
Roughly from memory:
-3D man with shapes in hands, your timed and have to identify how many pictures have a square in the right hand for example. (Man will be upside down and back to front in various pictures)
-Puzzle solving. Your given a small picture of part of a puzzle and are shown two puzzles, you're timed and have to decide whether the peice belongs to either puzzle
-Joystick. Keep the cross-hairs in the middle of the box for as much time as you can. The forces on the cross-hairs change all the time to be ready to react quickly but smoothly.
-Fly a 2D aeroplane through 2D squares in the sky. As simple as it sounds! Very sensitive though, easy to overshoot.

Hope that helps slightly?
My course is coming up to the end of phase one now, Jars in march....

Been a long time since anyone has posted here!
To those who did the pilapt at FTE, how did it go? I'm still trying to figure out where to apply for :ugh:

Thanks

Or you could skip FTE and do yourself a favour. Grap an aiport job , will teach you about the industry , meet contacts, go modular, save lots of money and get the same results.....no job. Honestly if your going to do flight training at this moment go modular as going integrated at the moment isn't an advantage personally as there are very few hiring at all with even Ryanair shutting up shop. At least with modular you can plan to do it over a longer time whilst you wait for the industry to improve. And before anybody says yes I went modular and no I didn't end up unemployed , so airlines do hire modular guys. I got a 737 job 3 months after training in 2012.

How much time off do you get during training at FTE? Obviously it's full-time out in Jerez, but how easy is it to get home every now and then to see family/friends? Do you get days off that are known in advance or is it all single days here and there as and when the weather doesn't play ball?

FTE Current Status
 

Anyone currently attending FTE have any opinions on it at the moment? I know last year there was apparently a shortage of suitable aircraft and instructors and that some of the more experienced instructors had left. Has this situation been resolved? How do yee find the training down there at the moment, does it live up to its price tag? Any info at all, no matter how trivial would be appreciated.

Class 1 Medical
 

Once/If i get accepted at FTE, I will obviously require a class 1 medical licence. Just posting to see how long it takes to receive the licence after the medical has been completed? Also, there has been some mixed replies in terms of if you get a calculator in the maths and physics tests? Some say yes, some say no? any chance someone could confirm this? Cheers.