BA Direct Entry Pilot.
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From: Lyon
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From: somewhere hot and sticky
Boebus, Pistolpete, LondonLenny,
It seems that as you have just made your first posts, you will not be able to receive PMs yet.
However I am interested to ask how you managed to book sim dates in August? I have been checking at least daily for nearly 4 months and have not seen a single date available on the system... am I doing something wrong or do they just get snapped up that fast?
Ta!
It seems that as you have just made your first posts, you will not be able to receive PMs yet.
However I am interested to ask how you managed to book sim dates in August? I have been checking at least daily for nearly 4 months and have not seen a single date available on the system... am I doing something wrong or do they just get snapped up that fast?
Ta!
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From: London
@A340Yumyum, he does ask a perfectly reasonable question and if you don't want to answer it, don't waste your time replying back to him, you only put off our fellow colleagues within the industry from asking for advise. The answer to that question is not definitively answered within this forum. However, even if it was, I don't see that reading through 157 pages of Pprune is doing your homework and taking 'goodness knows who wrote that article' as gospel.
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From: In a suitcase
Boebus, Pistolpete, LondonLenny,
It seems that as you have just made your first posts, you will not be able to receive PMs yet.
However I am interested to ask how you managed to book sim dates in August? I have been checking at least daily for nearly 4 months and have not seen a single date available on the system... am I doing something wrong or do they just get snapped up that fast?
Ta!
It seems that as you have just made your first posts, you will not be able to receive PMs yet.
However I am interested to ask how you managed to book sim dates in August? I have been checking at least daily for nearly 4 months and have not seen a single date available on the system... am I doing something wrong or do they just get snapped up that fast?
Ta!
Reckon you should email them to check in and let them know you are still keen.
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MSN001
Very unlikely until all the bid results have been analysed and fleet plans and course requirements for next year firmed up. So end of this year at the earliest. I suspect that there will be quite a few SH FO's with successful LH bids this year. They should get courses before any LH DEPs are recruited.
Regards
Very unlikely until all the bid results have been analysed and fleet plans and course requirements for next year firmed up. So end of this year at the earliest. I suspect that there will be quite a few SH FO's with successful LH bids this year. They should get courses before any LH DEPs are recruited.
Regards
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AFrotary
Don't think so the website says
"If you are a service pilot in the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Royal Marines or Army Air Corps you can apply via the Managed Path"
Seems pretty specific but probably worth a try
Don't think so the website says
"If you are a service pilot in the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Royal Marines or Army Air Corps you can apply via the Managed Path"
Seems pretty specific but probably worth a try
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From: Long Beach
Does anyone know if there is also a possibility for foreign military aviators to join BA without heavy fixed wing experience?
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You my friend are 100% incorrect.
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From: The Winchester
I heard that BA has a direct entry path for UK military aviators.
Does anyone know if there is also a possibility for foreign military aviators to join BA without heavy fixed wing experience....
Does anyone know if there is also a possibility for foreign military aviators to join BA without heavy fixed wing experience....
Hopefully somone who has benefitted for "Managed Path" will have chapter and verse but as I recall it Managed Path was the result of some discussion between some UK airlines and the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), and certainly initially the MOD/UK individual services facilitated and administered the scheme internally. See the bottom of this page:
RAF Learning Forces - Flying Training
......An MOD scheme has been established with airline and aviation related companies. It provides targeted assistance in entering the civil sector, which eases the transition process and encourages a longer Service flying career for RAF pilots. All service pilots, of 32 years of age or above, who are serving on a Permanent Commission (or equivalent), are eligible to register with the scheme. Military intranet users should access GAI 1028 ......
Last edited by wiggy; 16th August 2016 at 08:44. Reason: Added context
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Quite correct. It is a retention scheme to allow British Military pilots to take the initial parts of selection and then just the simulator in the final months before leaving. The idea is to stop pilots leaving the military early in fear of missing out on selection.