Loooooooooong wait at SIA

[flying.monkeyz]

SIA management has just recently updated cadet pilots that the waiting period from post CPL/IR at JDK to Advance Jet Training at MCY can be as long as almost 20 months, and perhaps 8 months wait for the 777 type course after that.

Things are just looking rotten at the moment.

[dss3000]

So 28 months from zero to 777 hmmmm not such a wait in my opinion.
Where I come from its longer like probably never lol

[flying.monkeyz]

It's 28 months wait from CPL to 777 ground school.

[captjns]

Children don't realize that the normal progression from the first engine start up in a 152 to any jet used to be som 5 to 7 years of real earned flying. So to bitch and moan about 28 months? Give me a freaken break!

[fullforward]

Children...

..always throwing toys away from the crib...so boring!

[PilotWA123]

Agreed

Your cadets do not realize how long we climb up the ladder from flying Cessna to Jet... Stop complaining like a baby..

[flying.monkeyz]

Not sure who are you guys referring to when it comes to bitching and moaning and complaining. I'm neither a cadet and nor are the cadets mine. I'm just sharing what was told to me from a friend of mine.

[Fair.Pilot]

Get out of SFC in Jandakot if u can't accept the facts that cadets will fly a jet in no time while you're SCREAMING your envy at those cadets!

Please take a dip at Swan River....

[rotatejunkie]

Anyways f.monkey,
Theres that SIA wannabe thread that you may wana share this info with

[msian1147]

Fair.Pilot

well said, terbaik

[perantau]

Hope during the waiting time, exclusive employment to SIA isn't expected of them. They should have some option of finding paying jobs in the mean time.

[parabellum]

Wouldn't be a bad idea if they went the old QANTAS route and after basic flying training they would have to go off and get at least 1500 P1 hours in light, commercial aircraft, before doing their jet conversion.

[richard III]

and the "owner" of the Learjet? who's he going to sell the hours to?....they have to somehow keep the most expensive pilot course in the world going, don't they?

[bleedthesky]

So the ones who have cleared the interview and are still waiting to get inducted into OBS will have to wait for 4 years minimum I guess?

[MainDude]

There's always the less glamorous Tiger job round the corner...

[flying.monkeyz]

There's nothing less glamorous about Tiger. At the rate things are going, one may end up with 4 bars on the shoulder with Tiger before the SQ guy even smells his three bars.

[dl_88]

different country, different working culture. if you guys noticed, there ain't a lot of GA jobs out of SG. Airlines/Airforce are pretty much the only way to go as a singaporean.

[bamboo30]

Thats if they have 48 k to throw in upfront too and there arent many GA jobs around for a SG national to work in even if they wanted to. They cant just go to Aus without a work permit and start flying GA eh?

[JammedStab]

While the cadets have it good, 200 hours and on a widebody jet......I am really glad that I was able to work my way up to a 747. Quite a few very cool turboprops and old jets, operating on skis to amazing parts of the world, towing gliders and dropping parachutists and lots of small plane flying. Very glad to have done it and would like to do more.

Sometimes I look at these guys and girls and think they missed out on a bunch of interesting stuff, but I like airplanes while some of these guys don't even know what a DC-3 is and don't seem to care.

[CDRW]

Jammed - I totally agree with you - I am similar in my first few 1000 hrs to you - from J3 Cubs to C402's - para dropping, survey flying, instructing gave a very good grounding. BUT - cadets these days do not have that opportunity and it is not their fault -- as the thread started, some one asked why it takes so long - and really it should not take so long for a chap on a cadet pilot scheme. Absolutely yes, he will being some basic survival experiences, but such is the way of the flying world we now live in.