BCFT
 

Dear fellow Ppruner's,

Any of you could provide a recent feedback of BCFT ? especially in comparison with other Bournemouth players...

It seems that many students start their ATPL with them and then leave for the flying part... :rolleyes: can't find any reason for such a move if the school sill holds its reputation..prices maybe ?

Mainly due to promises of jobs by other ATOs which never materialise. BCFT prices are competitive and student placement has been as good anywhere else.

I completed my training with BCFT (CPL and ME/IR) a few years ago after my original flying school (Cabair) went into administration, but thats another story. I had heard good things about BCFT and I wasn't disappointed. I started my training shortly after a change in management which seemed to be for the better in my experience.
I have heard a mixture of reviews about them recently, some good and some not so good, which I think is the case for a lot of schools, but I have heard a few stories recently about preferences given to Integrated students over modular students, but I can't say as this was the case when I was there however.
I would say don't be taken in by promises of a job from particularly one of the Bournemouth schools, I know a lot of students who have been there and its very much 50/50 with the ones who get a job as a pilot straight out of training and ones who didn't. One person I know who trained at said school, spent two years as Cabin crew with Easyjet before getting a F/O job with Ryanair (the same job as a lot of the guys I trained with at BCFT) but then others who walked straight into pilot jobs.
I apologise my experiences aren't desperately recent, but hopefully they'll help.

I trained there quite a long time ago (9/10 yrs). Was a good place to fly out of, lots of people left after the ATPLs because of the gossip of first time pass rates, which to be honest is more down to the individual rather than the standard of training, which was pretty good in those days, may I add. Anyway, I'm now a short haul captain at the 'world's favourite airline', so it can't have been that bad!

Most schools have there ups and downs. There is no preference given to integrated students over modular students at any of the schools I know who provide both types of training. It is simply a different way of training.

Thank you all for your kind and detailed answers! :D

Anyone care to share their review of very recent (i.e. within the past year or so) or current experiences with BCFT? Thinking of finishing off my PPL there in Spring or even doing my CPL/IR (modular) there in a couple year's time.

I am ever so puzzled as I have always heard extremely mixed reviews regarding BCFT, but these are from ex-students who would have trained there several years ago now and an awful lot appears to have changed with the school since.

9287Excellent.

We must know each other.

Why not? I’m actually thinking about taking their ATPL Theory ground school.

That’s interesting, where do you check pass rates?

I hold FAA CPL/IR/ME with 900 hrs TT, so the subjects are not completely new to me, and I’m considering self-study as well. I just see full-tome course as an opportunity to improve my far-from-perfect English in native-speaking environment. But I didn’t check their lodging rates so far, that’s true.

I just love the way Europeans sneer at the FAA system when they could actually learn a thing or two, especially when it comes to check rides and grillings on your actual knowledge

I wonder if you were so against the whole notion of 250 hour pilots near the controls of a large jet when you were one of them? Before you were a very senior captain at a worldwide airline on ‘your’ heavy Airbus. How many accidents have there been in the last 20 years attributed to FO inexperience?

Calm down chaps. There are pros and cons to both systems which only those who hold both will understand - none of it relevant to this thread!

^Yes, can we please stick to the topic of BCFT?

why not BCFT for PPL? and where else should people look then?

Well... Bournemouth, so that's why I was thinking about it for most of my training. Not exactly sure what I want to do in aviation yet, looking into fic. So really looking for professional flight training from ppl upwards really. I'm guessing saving on accommodation on top makes bcft a good option?

Edit: doing ok money wise, don't have the world so cannot afford l3/FTE etc

Intriguing, from the research I have put in regarding prices and rates compared with most other schools in the southern UK area, BCFT are very well priced in my opinion. I have been enquiring over the past few months for their ATPL ground CPL ME IR etc and they have been more then helpful, I also know a few FO's in the current company I work for that have completed their training with them and highly recommend.

P. S. I'm booked on the Modular ATPL course in November at BCFT this year, so if anyone else is going then hit me up! :ok:

I am booked on to the Alpha1 Modular ATPL course, starting October 1st!

See you there :ok:

Awesome!

Modular all the way!