I didnt realise there were any VFR instructors left at Oxford. I thought they retrained all of them to do the IFR phase. (or are the job cuts referring to the modular instructors?)

It doesn't matter how good 'they' are or were because insufficient revenue = unlikely to survive, even with mugs like mattince.. .Does OATS, like SFT, now = history?. .P.S. where is 'Oxford Tyler'?

Tyler is Oxfords VFR Fair Weather base in Dallas, Texas. They do all the way upto CPL Skills test there.

Oxford Blue and Magcheck.

Just to set the record straight(er).

1. OATS declined to re-employ an ex BA 747 Capt, allegedly because he had been an effective union rep for the instructors,

2. The 'new' MD. He is not a new hand at all. Three years ago he was selected to run the flying school by Mick Daw, the previous CEO. I believe his previous experience was running a bar in the caribean, but that may just be crew room gossip. When he was last at Oxford, when asked by TLT what his greatest achievement there was, he replied "sacking Andy ****". At the time 'Tony had been nicknamed ILS by groundschool, a name that aquired commen currency with the flying instructors. (ILS doesn't stand for a landing aid).

3. All the flying instructors have been offered a new pay package, on a take it or leave it basis.

4. On news of his return, staff morale slumped to its present position.

5. The instructors are still good.

The relevance (if not the interest) of this thread to Wannabes is getting weaker with each post. As it appears to revolve entirely around issues regarding instructors, that is the forum on which I shall place it. Feel free to continue your debate there.