UL Cadet discremination
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Hmmm Farcry
Well that explains why ul501 is so bitter and twisted. But hey man UL501 move on, get over it, try elsewhere. After all how many of us get to do exactly what we want in this life? You are just one of many!
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Hey uniformlima
9 cadets was mentioned earlier and thats because it was the original number that was taken in previous intakes. However this time there were 15 cadets taken, im speculating that this is due to ULs recent plans to expand their market into Australia (sydney) in particular. However im not sure that 15 cadets will be taken during the next intake either.
What i do know is that there will be more intakes coming up quite soon, dates are still to be confirmed but within 6 months according to rumors.
Whats your qualifications?
cheers newagebird
9 cadets was mentioned earlier and thats because it was the original number that was taken in previous intakes. However this time there were 15 cadets taken, im speculating that this is due to ULs recent plans to expand their market into Australia (sydney) in particular. However im not sure that 15 cadets will be taken during the next intake either.
What i do know is that there will be more intakes coming up quite soon, dates are still to be confirmed but within 6 months according to rumors.
Whats your qualifications?
cheers newagebird
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Guys, as far i know the ad may come out in Sep-Oct.
16 guys are going for sim next weekend
dont know how many they will take
37 guys sat for the tech exams this time
its fair game if you do well............Milinda has no choice but to take you in.
look for changes in aviation in sri lanka
mihi air got a a320 , first flt is tommorrow to india .......Bodhiya ...something like that......bulgarian pilots ....perhaps 1 local guys as well.
all cabin crew are local 16 girls 4 guys
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_0...4135721CH.html
look at mihin a320
16 guys are going for sim next weekend
dont know how many they will take
37 guys sat for the tech exams this time
its fair game if you do well............Milinda has no choice but to take you in.
look for changes in aviation in sri lanka
mihi air got a a320 , first flt is tommorrow to india .......Bodhiya ...something like that......bulgarian pilots ....perhaps 1 local guys as well.
all cabin crew are local 16 girls 4 guys
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_0...4135721CH.html
look at mihin a320
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Nex Intake
My Worry Is That If They Take Around 15 They Wont Advertise Till Next Year January.
Lesser The Batch Sooner They Will Advertise......
So Guys Please Submit The Info As You Get It.
UL 501 ANY CONFORMED NUMBER OF CADET THAT WILL BE TAKEN IN THIS BATCH
Lesser The Batch Sooner They Will Advertise......
So Guys Please Submit The Info As You Get It.
UL 501 ANY CONFORMED NUMBER OF CADET THAT WILL BE TAKEN IN THIS BATCH
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current intake number
Number wont be confirmed until sim tests are carried out, which is coming this week as indicated by previous posts. The next intake is supposed to be coming sooner than january because of a planned route expansion. Like ive said before within the next 6-8 months.
cheers newagebird
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Sim
SIm is done by Capt P karu. So by now the list is been prepared by ops ,,, so 9 cadets are already in and out of them 5 FAA guys are there.
The names are ..
Ya
Th
Sa
Nu
Ra etc
These names have already reached Ops manager
The names are ..
Ya
Th
Sa
Nu
Ra etc
These names have already reached Ops manager
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Get A life UL501/2
There's no point bashing your previous employer,after all you got your humble experience there and like all other cabbys you too were critized when you got in with influence, like dady being there before!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like some one said, people who bash other in public have some thing about themselvs too which they are ashamed of or hide from others..
lots of skeletons in the closet here.....
I think the cadet intakes have been fine, it's the disgruntled or more like the ones who are stupid enough to not pass the exams who post nasties here.
So for all those aspiring airline pilots, the road is long, but get in there with determination, then it will be plain sailing.
Then once you have got your experience and are marketable, reddicule the airline and staff and bugg off some where like some here have done.
Brgds.
Like some one said, people who bash other in public have some thing about themselvs too which they are ashamed of or hide from others..
lots of skeletons in the closet here.....
I think the cadet intakes have been fine, it's the disgruntled or more like the ones who are stupid enough to not pass the exams who post nasties here.
So for all those aspiring airline pilots, the road is long, but get in there with determination, then it will be plain sailing.
Then once you have got your experience and are marketable, reddicule the airline and staff and bugg off some where like some here have done.
Brgds.
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Cadet Intake has never been OK
The guys who say that the Cadet Pilot intake is OK are the guys who have got in with all the influence, and are now pretending that they have passed the technical exams and got in on MERIT . It is quite obvious that exams can be passed if the papers are delivered to your door step before hand. If you look at the cadet pilot intake advertisements from the nineties you will find that not all the advertisements are the same, there is something different in every advert to accomodate their favourites.A good example is this time. At the initial interview the favourites were told to prepare from FAA and the others were told to prepare from JAR and CAA ????????????
If you want to embark into aviation make sure you have the rite connection otherwise it is a waste of time and money............
If you want to embark into aviation make sure you have the rite connection otherwise it is a waste of time and money............
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Just a question...how different is JAR and FAA and CAA...it cant be that different, aviation is fairly standardised even though different countries use different jargon.
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By now should know the difference between FAA/CAA/JAR
Please go through the syllabus and you will find out how different it is. or for that matter if you are FAA qualified guy try sitting for either CAA or JAR you will definitely fail. The point that was highlighed by me was that at the first interview the panel was totally misleading to the candidates. ( The favourites were told to prepare FAA and the others were told to prepare from CAA and JAR)
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FAA harder than JAR???
Are u sure about that? JAR is meant to be much much harder than FAA exams. So i don;t know how you could fail the easier exam. Another thing concerning ATPL subjects such as aerodynamics, aircraft general knowledge...the knowledge doesnt change over FAA and JAR, JAR is supposed to be more thorough that is all.
Also aerodynamics principles and aircraft general knowledge is not different in other parts of the world, air law maybe but otherwise i don't think so.
People with JAR only need to do air law in most conversion cases. However FAA people almost always need to do a 6 month conversion course.
newagebird
Also aerodynamics principles and aircraft general knowledge is not different in other parts of the world, air law maybe but otherwise i don't think so.
People with JAR only need to do air law in most conversion cases. However FAA people almost always need to do a 6 month conversion course.
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Jaa Faa Jar Caa Or Whatever
WHAT EVER YOU STUDY TO PASS THE SRILANKAN TECH EXAM WE DONT KNOW & THEY DONT GIVE WHAT THE PASS MARK IS OR A RANK???
IS THERE A PASS MARK ??? EXAMPLE FOR AIRLAW EXAM CONDUCTED BY SLCAA ITS 70%BUT WHAT IS THE MARK ONE SHOULD SCORE TO PROGRESS IN THE SELECTION PROCESS????????
WHY DONT THEY GIVE A RANK OR THE MARKS???????????????????
IS THERE A PASS MARK ??? EXAMPLE FOR AIRLAW EXAM CONDUCTED BY SLCAA ITS 70%BUT WHAT IS THE MARK ONE SHOULD SCORE TO PROGRESS IN THE SELECTION PROCESS????????
WHY DONT THEY GIVE A RANK OR THE MARKS???????????????????
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Interesting point uniform lima...
maybe they don't have a pass mark on purpose..because lets say it was 50% and quite a few of the prospective cadets passed. Lets say about 20 out of the 35 who tried out and lets say they plan to take only 9 cadets.
Then it comes down to who they want to pick. This tech exam isnt a test you pass and get a certificate for, its for a job interview so anyone doing the interview would prefer if you did as best as u can...even aim for 100% even thou its impossible. If they had a pass mark then people will just aim for the pass mark. Whats the point in a rank anyway? its not like your up against the exact same people every year!
Or theres the conspiracy theory way of thinking about it and saying that sri lankan swaps all the good cadets exams with their 'favorites'. Quite possible and i won't say no to it. We're all having the same problems.
Theres gotta be some sort of process of elimination. I'd hate it though if my mark was used to get some dude through and he doesnt know the first thing about aircraft1
maybe they don't have a pass mark on purpose..because lets say it was 50% and quite a few of the prospective cadets passed. Lets say about 20 out of the 35 who tried out and lets say they plan to take only 9 cadets.
Then it comes down to who they want to pick. This tech exam isnt a test you pass and get a certificate for, its for a job interview so anyone doing the interview would prefer if you did as best as u can...even aim for 100% even thou its impossible. If they had a pass mark then people will just aim for the pass mark. Whats the point in a rank anyway? its not like your up against the exact same people every year!
Or theres the conspiracy theory way of thinking about it and saying that sri lankan swaps all the good cadets exams with their 'favorites'. Quite possible and i won't say no to it. We're all having the same problems.
Theres gotta be some sort of process of elimination. I'd hate it though if my mark was used to get some dude through and he doesnt know the first thing about aircraft1
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"Are u sure about that? JAR is meant to be much much harder than FAA exams."
Yes the JAR or the old UK CAA exams are a lot harder then the FAR. The FAR would have to be the easiest exam to pass as you do not need to know or understand any of the material, one can pay money to practice on the actual exam question bank a number of times then sit the exam and pass first go.
This company does in one day a prep and ATP exam, they almost have a 100% success rate http://www.atpflightschool.com/progr...ttens/atp.html, to pass the JAR exams would take 6 months of study.
Having a number of ATPLs, the FAA is by far the easiest, Canada is also fairly easy (about twice as hard as the FAA, but twice easy is still not hard), Australian, New Zealand, and any based on the old UK CAA (like Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia etc) and JAR would have to some of the hardest.
Yes the JAR or the old UK CAA exams are a lot harder then the FAR. The FAR would have to be the easiest exam to pass as you do not need to know or understand any of the material, one can pay money to practice on the actual exam question bank a number of times then sit the exam and pass first go.
This company does in one day a prep and ATP exam, they almost have a 100% success rate http://www.atpflightschool.com/progr...ttens/atp.html, to pass the JAR exams would take 6 months of study.
Having a number of ATPLs, the FAA is by far the easiest, Canada is also fairly easy (about twice as hard as the FAA, but twice easy is still not hard), Australian, New Zealand, and any based on the old UK CAA (like Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia etc) and JAR would have to some of the hardest.
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The point is not which exams, be it FAA/JAR/CAA are harder, the point is that a certain group of applicants have been told what material to study and may have possibly been given copies of the exams or parts of the exam! While other applicants are being told the exact opposite.
From what I know there are some applicants with medical issues they are trying to sort out whilst we are at the simulator stage. If you can't pass the medical you shouldnt be flying no matter whos son/nephew/friend etc you are.
After reading this post I am begining to wonder if there is even any point in having a Cadet Pilot program whatsoever, if they have already been hand picked.
God save the Queen and Bless Sri Lankan cos they will definitely need it!
From what I know there are some applicants with medical issues they are trying to sort out whilst we are at the simulator stage. If you can't pass the medical you shouldnt be flying no matter whos son/nephew/friend etc you are.
After reading this post I am begining to wonder if there is even any point in having a Cadet Pilot program whatsoever, if they have already been hand picked.
God save the Queen and Bless Sri Lankan cos they will definitely need it!