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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
4th Mar 2024, 14:24
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

If you think you could be interested in...

If you think you could be interested in instructing there are great careers doing that for people who are tenacious and mature. There is definately a gap in the market for older wiser instructors...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
1st Feb 2024, 15:13
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

No point getting an Australian CPL unless you...

No point getting an Australian CPL unless you have citizenship or a visa that allows you to work here. My advice would be to come over on a tourist visa, convert your PPL, build up a chunk of command...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
26th Jan 2024, 03:25
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

PM sent!

PM sent!
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
7th Dec 2023, 01:39
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

Flying schools exist for one reason, to sell...

Flying schools exist for one reason, to sell flying courses. The bigger they are and the more qualifications they can sell you the richer they get and the VET system has made this very easy for them,...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
3rd Dec 2023, 22:52
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

That is an eye watering amount of money. It does...

That is an eye watering amount of money. It does worry me how many people are clocking up these massive debts with indexation at 7.1%, That's $9940 a year added if you don't pay any off this year. On...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
8th Oct 2023, 01:13
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

IF you are going to do one of those types of...

IF you are going to do one of those types of courses, talk to a qualified financial advisor rather than a flying school salesman before taking on a VET loan.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
13th May 2023, 04:18
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

Courses at the Quantas Group Flying Academy are...

Courses at the Quantas Group Flying Academy are not cadetships. Ask them what their percentage is of people who start the course to people who get a job with Qantas at the end of it. I know the...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
12th Sep 2022, 07:40
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

For that amount of money, that is normally only...

For that amount of money, that is normally only accessible to people in the very top percentiles in ATAR, there should be a very high bar to entry.
The only other courses that can borrow that much...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
12th Sep 2022, 02:30
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

Not sure if you are giving or receiving, it's a...

Not sure if you are giving or receiving, it's a slik sales pitch.

Someone who's done the course part time will have at least 100 hours in command, no expensive ratings that they can't use and will...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
11th Sep 2022, 23:55
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

What job are you ready for with 70 hours in...

What job are you ready for with 70 hours in command?.
Big difference between a list of acronyms in your licence and being job ready. Command time is what makes you job ready and promotable.
There...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
11th Sep 2022, 11:55
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

PLus it is indexed with CPI, not interest rates...

PLus it is indexed with CPI, not interest rates then there's tens of thousands in "admin fees" added on, which would be better used getting command time!

What's the rush? You need to have an edge...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
19th Feb 2019, 13:32
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

Thanks Jonkster. I have a rate for supervised...

Thanks Jonkster.
I have a rate for supervised solo that reflects that the instructor also gets paid a lower hourly rate for supervision than if they are flying. Sure they might be "double dipping"...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
16th Feb 2019, 03:39
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

No point getting an Australian CPL without having...

No point getting an Australian CPL without having residency or citizenship.

Best to come here, do the PPL and build hours, then go back to Europe to do the modular CPL there.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
16th Feb 2019, 01:19
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

Well, I hope you never become an instructor...

Well, I hope you never become an instructor because the idea that all that responsibility should be done for nothing is the reason instructor wages are so rubbish.
Some places have a "supervised...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
15th Feb 2019, 00:27
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

That's all very true, especially the bit where...

That's all very true, especially the bit where you have a choice! You don't have to chose until you are at that point in your training.

Since the RPL came in five years ago only one student of...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
14th Feb 2019, 11:53
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

My advice is to go straight through to PPL rather...

My advice is to go straight through to PPL rather than mess around with an RPL and all those endorsements. There is no requirement to do an RPL and it gives you no exemptions when you do a PPL. If...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
7th Nov 2017, 08:58
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

Yes but still limits your choices considerably.

Yes but still limits your choices considerably.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
6th Nov 2017, 06:07
Replies: 1,034
Views: 810,638
Posted By Clare Prop

VET-FEE funding stopped on 31 Dec 2016. If...

VET-FEE funding stopped on 31 Dec 2016.

If you are wanting taxpayers to fund your flying training then you will be very limited indeed on where you can train.
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