SFI - it must be fun on your flight deck. I suggest you keep such comments to yourself. We are here to encourage people, not put them down.

Groundloop is perfectly correct. I have met many PPLs with a better professional attitude than many "professionals".

And you dare to pontificate about CRM?

Are you serious Cefey?:ooh: No- one passed?

What kind of questions did they ask then? Can you tell us more please?

If you're talking abiout the performance exams, way too many graph questions and not enough time to do them in. Questions that are worth a couple of marks in Nav suddenly become elements of three-parters.

It can take as little as 2 weeks to learn a full QB to sufficient level to pass. Not a wise move though. If you think you'll continue to read and learn the ATPL text books post exam, you are fooling no one but yourself.

Many do employ this tactic, you'd be surprised at the FOs who turn up on-line without some pretty basic knowledge.

A famous Old Boy once turned up at my school assembley and said, "half of everything you learn at school is completely useless and is pointless learning". All the teachers turned round looking aghast, until he said "but you don't know which half, so study it all". Very true.

That's unbelievable. I did the exams a year ago, and all of them were similar to the qb.
Even then there were people without first time passes.
I suppose it is a problem for students now, since some big employers require first time passes. :ugh:

Genius... absolute genius!

I may only hold a PPL but I have been involved in the education and training of commercial pilots for the last 15 years and I have seen all types - those who really want to learn and those who just want to scrape through with the minimum effort.

Thank you all for your useful replies.

Any others?

Afro, I was talking about the recruitment policy of a big low cost carrier in Europe. This airline is at present the nearly only one that recruits low hour pilots from flight schools in large numbers.

However, they only invite people with first time passes on the theory and (I think) first time pass on the CPL/IR check (partial passes?)

If you don't have those, you can join the ,,finished flight school, no job'' club. Unless you find something else.

I myself am In a different position, couldn't continue integrated training after theory, because no loan from the bank.

To be honest, Afro, I have no idea where people get the money for that type rating. I guess you could include it in a loan for an integrated course. This explains why some people leave school with a 100.000 euro debt with little job prospects.

That's not a typo.

So maybe I am better off after all.:rolleyes:

There is conflicting opinion about whether you have more chance of getting a job if you did integrated rather than modular. And even modular is difficult to fund if you have a simple part-time job. Those theory exams are only valid 3 years, after all.
And finding a general aviation job in this part of the world is a bit of a gamble too, I think.
But yes, it is an option.


Are you in europe?

That's quite a statement :ooh: I don't know the answer.

Ask in this thread:
http://www.pprune.org/interviews-job...erged-140.html

Sorry for going way over topic.:rolleyes: