Agreed,

Been with the company for almost 11 years all on the 777. I take pleasure in going to work and flying my roster as published or more likely 'as swapped'.

I bid to go to the same places (out of about 55 different 777 destinations) and get to socialise with the same group of people, who like those places. Reserve is an eye opener when you get to fly with the rest of the fleet to all those places you probably forgot about.

Now have a to pop into Heathrow and finally decide my bid for 2017, remain on the 777, go to the 787 or Airbus Command? Other choices are available!

August Sim
 

Have a Sim date in August. Anybody else in the same boat want to chat about tips etc? Pm me.

How long does it take to hear the results of the first assessment? Had it recently and have not heard yet.

Hi all, I have an assessment on the 9th Aug.
Has anyone who sat it recently got any feedback or advice?

Len.

When is your assessment, mine is in August as well. Do you know if the 757 has definitely been retired as a sim option?

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!

FYI
 

I'm an FO A320 LHR and I've flown no more than 750 hrs in the last 365 days.

'Do you know if the 757 has definitely been retired as a sim option?'

I think you realllllly need to do some homework, if you are asking this question.

To be fair though- the sim notes they provide for day 3 includes the 757 which is why he's probably asking..

Many military colleagues have used PM Flight with positive results and not just BA assessment.

To be fair though- the sim notes they provide for day 3 includes the 757 which is why he's probably asking..

Nope, to be fair, he should read through this thread........homework.....

@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.

757 sim has definitely gone and its space is now occupied by a newly built 787 sim. Assessment is only on the 747 now.

757 is dstill in use, at Fed Ex

Hey Dupre, sorry about the late reply. Got sent the Sim dates in an email direct from recruitment. Replied straight away and got a date. Didn't log in to the system at all.

Reckon you should email them to check in and let them know you are still keen.

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

And rightly so!

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?

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

I am pretty certain that any such application would be discarded, without a further glance. BA's stated criteria for DEP, with regard to previous experience, are pretty specific. Ignoring them is a sure way to getting your application binned.