April 20, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Hi to all this is my first post here.I want to be an commercial pilot.Could anyone suggest some good flying school for a person starting from the ground.I am planing to do Commercial Pilot License with multi-engine along with instrument rating the License should be JAA certified.Could anyone please suggest me some flight school in regard of my query.Hope to hear from you all soon.Thank you.:)
By: devrudra07 - 23rd April 2007 at 12:15
Thank You for the very useful reply.
This will be my first visit to the UK.And i will be taking Student Loan to help me financially.
By: BlueRobin - 22nd April 2007 at 23:53
Indeed first thing I did after being given the bump and before starting ATPL theory.
This link shows AMEs outside of the UK. Unfortunately none in India. Perhaps there’s a cheap flight to one of the countries listed?
By: zamfire - 22nd April 2007 at 19:39
A point to remember:
The very first thing you should do is to make sure you pass the appropriate medical. If you can’t get a Firast Class medical then it’s all pointless.
By: BlueRobin - 22nd April 2007 at 19:23
Some threads here are a good place to start reading, where they do the pro study debate thing to death … 🙂
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=131649
The first question is, how much money do you have, are willing to spend and thus can you do the integrated or modular route?
If you produce about £60,000, you can go to Oxford (oxfordaviation,net) or Cabair (cabair.com) or West Australia College do an integrated course and probably have an airline job within two years, all subject to visas and with Oxford, probably having to pay further for a type rating with GECAT in order to secure your first airline job.
Modular is a bit cheaper and there are schools who run PPL/hours building/MEP CPL/IR/MCC back-to-back, so in essence not much removed from an integrated course. There are many more of these. I wouldn’t personally go on anyone’s recommendation because you only do the route once, so no one can really judge whether school A is better than school B on merit alone.
The CAA in the UK produce a list of approved FTOs (Flight Training Organsations) in a things called “standards document 31”. This is regularly updated every month and can be downloaded here:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/SRG_FCL_APPROVEDFTOS.PDF
I would go through that and start your research on the web. There are contact details, included website addresses, contained within.
But if you wanted to look in my area for schools, I would browse the following websites for a better idea
http://www.flyaft.com (did my theory here)
http://www.aeros.co.uk (this is where Moderator Dean has done his CPL/IR)
http://www.hgfc.co.uk (this is where I’m doing my CPL/IR, smaller airfield without instrument facilities but cheaper and more friendly)
Would this be your first time in the UK? Have you got relatives here, any idea of whereabouts you want to stay? We’ve got quite a rather good, diverse and multicultural population here in the Midlands, so you may get by rather well.
By: devrudra07 - 22nd April 2007 at 18:47
I am currently in India doing my final year in the high school.Thinking to do my graduation in aviation and my flying from UK.So i am collecting information before hand so that i wont have to waste time later.So you can suggest me the flying school anywhere in UK.Hope to hear from you soon.
By: BlueRobin - 20th April 2007 at 19:42
India, apparently.
By: G-ANPK - 20th April 2007 at 19:30
Devrudra07
It might help if you give us a clue about your location !!
G-ANPK