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Just Greed not evolution!
Yes one UK school can put out 2000 cadets per year (ok some of their training is abroad mostly due Wx and fuel costs) See:
CAE Oxford Aviation Academy | Top Flying Schools In the UK
Scroll down past the usual comments and you get a reality check here:
"Anonymous
Date Submitted: June 3, 2013
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When I read the reviews displayed here, what I feel more than anything is disappointment. You are being mislead. Not overtly however, these reviews aren’t fake, but they only represent a fraction of OAA graduates. That’d be the fraction with jobs. Those without have strong tendencies towards more negative views but keep their mouths well and truly shut due to the culture of fear and intimidation that, unfortunately, pervades at the FTO that is commonly revered as the very best. I have friends who’ve done extremely well for themselves and are very much living the flying dream with no quarrels around how they got there. I also know people who’ve been unable to procure airline employment up to 10 years after graduation and feel they are unlikely to due to underhand blacklisting practices. Hearing this back in 2006 I would have been extremely sceptical but then I was just a naïve young aspirant like yourself with lots of dreams but very little wisdom. Consider this: A ball and a bat together cost £11, the bat is £10 more expensive than the ball, how much does the ball cost?……………98% of people won’t come to the correct answer of 50p unless they really break it down, instead going for the seemingly obvious but wrong £1. This is an example of how the human brain sees what it wants to see in order to alleviate a dilemma and produce a solution. Given that this flaw is inherent in most of us, I wouldn’t berate you for disregarding my review as you want so badly to follow in the footsteps of the 5-star crowd. Well that can be done kid, and Oxford’s not too bad a place to do it, but you need to balance enthusiasm, awareness and assertive behaviour so as not to get in anybody’s bad books. There’s not enough space to list examples here but I could tell you stuff that would make your jaw drop. Seriously, you’d be in A+E having it reset. All that maudlin stuff aside there are some brilliant staff and instructors at this place who really do make the experience quite wonderful (in parts) and to re-iterate what I’ve said before this has been the starting place for many peoples dreams and may well be for yours too. Just bear in mind that they are a business and are there to make money – if a handful of rejects fall by the wayside every now and again its not reflected in their balance sheet or financial reports and ultimately they do not give a damn. This comes down to you, how badly you want this and how good you are generally at getting what you want. Oh, and don’t believe the words “looming pilot shortage”, EVER. No such thing has effected low-hours pilots since the Battle of Britain in 1940. I’ve been unemployed (discounting temp jobs) for many years now due to my assumption that paying up and passing the entry assessment would place me on a fast track course to the right hand seat of a jet with OAA looking after me the whole way. Hubris is the best term to describe that. Responsibility for the lives of hundreds of people does not get given to under-achievers, so if you’re not completely ready to commit wait until you are then go for it with everything you have. And be prepared for the fact that you might still fail regardless so have other career options to fall back on."
Just ask the UK CAA how many CPL/MPL frozen ATPLs they issue per year.
CAE Oxford Aviation Academy | Top Flying Schools In the UK
Scroll down past the usual comments and you get a reality check here:
"Anonymous
Date Submitted: June 3, 2013
12345
When I read the reviews displayed here, what I feel more than anything is disappointment. You are being mislead. Not overtly however, these reviews aren’t fake, but they only represent a fraction of OAA graduates. That’d be the fraction with jobs. Those without have strong tendencies towards more negative views but keep their mouths well and truly shut due to the culture of fear and intimidation that, unfortunately, pervades at the FTO that is commonly revered as the very best. I have friends who’ve done extremely well for themselves and are very much living the flying dream with no quarrels around how they got there. I also know people who’ve been unable to procure airline employment up to 10 years after graduation and feel they are unlikely to due to underhand blacklisting practices. Hearing this back in 2006 I would have been extremely sceptical but then I was just a naïve young aspirant like yourself with lots of dreams but very little wisdom. Consider this: A ball and a bat together cost £11, the bat is £10 more expensive than the ball, how much does the ball cost?……………98% of people won’t come to the correct answer of 50p unless they really break it down, instead going for the seemingly obvious but wrong £1. This is an example of how the human brain sees what it wants to see in order to alleviate a dilemma and produce a solution. Given that this flaw is inherent in most of us, I wouldn’t berate you for disregarding my review as you want so badly to follow in the footsteps of the 5-star crowd. Well that can be done kid, and Oxford’s not too bad a place to do it, but you need to balance enthusiasm, awareness and assertive behaviour so as not to get in anybody’s bad books. There’s not enough space to list examples here but I could tell you stuff that would make your jaw drop. Seriously, you’d be in A+E having it reset. All that maudlin stuff aside there are some brilliant staff and instructors at this place who really do make the experience quite wonderful (in parts) and to re-iterate what I’ve said before this has been the starting place for many peoples dreams and may well be for yours too. Just bear in mind that they are a business and are there to make money – if a handful of rejects fall by the wayside every now and again its not reflected in their balance sheet or financial reports and ultimately they do not give a damn. This comes down to you, how badly you want this and how good you are generally at getting what you want. Oh, and don’t believe the words “looming pilot shortage”, EVER. No such thing has effected low-hours pilots since the Battle of Britain in 1940. I’ve been unemployed (discounting temp jobs) for many years now due to my assumption that paying up and passing the entry assessment would place me on a fast track course to the right hand seat of a jet with OAA looking after me the whole way. Hubris is the best term to describe that. Responsibility for the lives of hundreds of people does not get given to under-achievers, so if you’re not completely ready to commit wait until you are then go for it with everything you have. And be prepared for the fact that you might still fail regardless so have other career options to fall back on."
Just ask the UK CAA how many CPL/MPL frozen ATPLs they issue per year.
