World shortage of rotary pilots

[Iain-M]

Maybe they thought the applicants they were getting weren't the most suited to the job?

With self-sponsored candidates the only ones you have turning up at your door are the ones who decided to take the risk and pay for their own training. Leaving a lot of other people, with the same ambitions/dream, to pursue another path. Maybe Bond wanted to attract that other half.

I have no idea, just a theory. Oh and I failed selection!

[g-mady]

Didn't you have to pay some terrible fee for the privilege too?!!!

[Heliringer]

Malc. You should have done your research before spending the money on a licence. Everyone knows there are hardly any low time jobs out there, However, they do exist.


Cheers
Ringer

[Martin Barclay]

Pilot Shortage

In response to G-Mady ' s point I also would love to know why Bond, or any other company, would rather take on a candidate at the ab-initio stage who may drop out at some point when the going gets tough rather than a candidate who has self funded, often making considerable sacrifices on the way but who does not have any savings (or credit) left to make the last stage. Surely that candidate has demonstrated considerable commitment and determination as well as providing a quicker and lower cost solution to a recruitment requirement. Some of them may be the 'rich kids' mentioned earlier but if they have got a CPL(H) they also have skills, knowledge and ability as well as money.

It is all very well for some to lecture about self funding but once you are at the limit it takes all you can earn just to pay some of it back never mind spending another £40K.

If anyone actually knows the reason for this policy, and I am sure there is a sound one, please let me know.

Martin.

[Whirlygig]

I would suspect that the Bond students are "bonded" at most stages of their training so if they drop out, there may well be penalty. Secondly, it might be that Bond wanted students whom they could mould into the sort of pilots they wanted.

Cheers

Whirls

[manfromuncle]

rich ****s never make it past go because they fail to realise that money cannot buy knowledge.

I know plenty of 'rich kids' who have 'made it', purely on daddy's money.

[Whirlygig]

D'yknow what? I find all this talk of "rich ****s" and "Daddy's money" (can't Mama have any money?) quite offensive. People's circumstances are all individual; just because somebody has had funding from parents does not make them a better or worse person. If somebody's parents worked hard to provide a good life for their children, what the hell is wrong with that?

Yes, my father will be paying for my instrument rating. But, know what? I would actually rather he was still alive instead.

Cheers

Whirls

[g-mady]

Whirls,

I disagree about the "moulding" thing. A PPL and even CPL needs alot of Moulding!
I mean its crazy to think a PPL/CPL is so stuck in his ways at 200hrs that hes beyond hope and never to be recovered or employable by the North sea.

They can mould me.....!!!

MADY

[check]

g-mady,

I'm afraid I'm with Whirls on this one. They can be moulded in Bonds image so to speak and are more likely to follow the "part line" than a standard joiner.

I speak as an ex Bonder from before they were Bond, that said however there was a lot of brand loyalty amongst the staff.