CABAIR : Sponsored FI course

[expedite08]

It is a cracking scheme. Ive never known Cabair to be so quiet though! If your interested in one of their courses they normally bite your arm off! Very spooky if you ask me.
Ive got two theories, they are either purely just marketing it at the moment...
or... Someone had a bright idea on a rainy day ( hhmm how about an Instructor Sponsorship) and has had a fair size bollocking for putting it in to nearly every aviation related media, thus they are keeping thier mouths shut hoping it will go away like a bad smell never to be mentioned again!
What do we think ?

[porridge]

I think it is because it they are so short of instructors they are using the FIC people to do integrated training. Talk is there are 3 people doing the course at Cranfield, but they are not flying due to this.
Also heard a couple of resignations happened very recently due to some very interesting operational procedures, one of which was reported to the lads at the big grey building somewhere in Sussex!

[expedite08]

Guess time will tell. If there are three people on the course already and not flying what are they doing? maybe they have got a little too ambitious with this.

I wonder if they have been hit hard with applications for the scheme. its a shame because the idea behind it is excellent. the old adage applies I think

If it seems too good to be true, then it is! never mind

[AlphaMale]

Back to Plan A for me then. Plan B (this) would get me in the air quicker but so so.

[Parson]

Well I have applied and await interview so will give them the benefit of the doubt for the time being.....

[Kanu]

It seems like a good deal for peeps with nothing, but for people with all the qualifications already there seems to be little incentive?

15K inc first 20 hours is probably one of the higher salaries in the country but its nothing compared to getting 40-50K worth of training for 10 grand plus 2 years work.

[Kanu]

disregard above - just worked out the hourly stuff too. It's not all that bad really

[AlphaMale]

You get the below if you have a JAR CPL and you pay £10k

FIC (~£6k)
IR (~£10k)
MCC (~£3k)
JOC (~£2.5K)

Doesn't add up to £40k/£50k though

Or do Cabair actually charge up to £50k just for the above?

[Kanu]

I was going more along the lines of intergrated prices which would include the cpl and groundschool - in short my post was bollocks. Either way - you appear to get more if you do the training with them rather than go to them with the FI rating. I suppose it depends on how many hours you'll do each month. 63 last month, would have given me an extra grand.... That would have been nice

[expedite08]

Probably!!

Then again its still good and saves you money! Im going to give it to the end of the month and then start chasing them up again. Persistance pays off in this game I think.

[cessna310]

Hi,
Who applied for FI spo?When r u going to start?



Regards,
Cessna310.

[T-21]

I had 2 interviews with them for a job and guess what !! no answer. Not impressed !!

[AlphaMale]

Does anybody know of any another school offering a similar FI/IR/MCC Sponsorship? even a FI/IR or CPL/IR/FI could be good?

[sam34]

" I had 2 interviews with them for a job and guess what !! no answer. Not impressed !! "

Tss... well they are not serious and polite. (I hope they're reading me).
Tell yourself : you deserve more.

[pablo]

Hi!

I'm still very impressed that this people at Cabair are short on FIs and still not take care of customers-prospective employees. Well... maybe I should not be so impressed, 'cos if I recall correctly... Cabair had an agreement with Airmed Valencia (nice bunch to be customer of, and let's not talk about working for them).

As I'm around 1 month to finish my FI, does anyone know if they're interested in "external" FI(R), terms and conditions, and what's the working atmosphere like over there? (No sponsorship, I already have the MCC, IR, ME and all the stuff).

Thanks in advance.

Regards / Pablo

[T-21]

Thanks Sam34 for your kind comments,but as to working in the aviation industry if this is how they treat people they can get stuffed .

[Pick me Flybe!]

T21

Does that mean that if cabair phoned tomorrow with 10k of sponsorship you would tell them your no longer interested?? Probably not i expect.

As oppossed to bangin on about how you havent heard anything, why not go and get in your car and drive there with an undated cv and tell them how interested you still are.

I aint been in this game very long but one thing i do know is that you have to do all the chasing! Whether its an airline or FIC job.

[T-21]

Mr Flybe,
3 visits there and you said i was not interested and not to mention are you picking up my petrol tab. i have been flying for a long time so don't condescend to tell me how to progress !!

[T-21]

By the way Mr Flybe,these companies should learn a few basic manners and have the decency to reply ,sadly lacking today. Rollon the over 50's rebellion cause its fast approaching cause were are all p***ed off with the way we get treated. Get some life experience before snide remarks to instructors who have worked bloody hard to get where they are now .

[porridge]

Nothing much has changed since the old days of Messrs Greed & Thiefcoate. Still the same old leopard of course. After all wasn't it good old Steve who put the "S" in Cabair?