Air Atlantique Pilot Sponsorship Opportunity

My application is on it’s way.

dme

Having double checked, I’m still too old and have no PPL. Bugger.

I’ll check again tomorrow, but I don’t think it’ll help 🙁

JC

But bear in mind the nature of the job. A lot of Atlantic’s work is ad hoc charter. You’ll be sitting at home, the phone rings and within ah hour you are on your way to some airfield in Norway to pick up oilfield parts.

No schedules (just short deadlines), no passengers, just a couple of hours in an Electra to mull over your trip to some airshow or other in the Proctor the following weekend. Or is it the Anson, or the Dove? And the training was free. And you aren’t paying for the fuel.

Good points, well presented.

Where do I sign?

Oh bugger, too old… 🙁

But bear in mind the nature of the job. A lot of Atlantic’s work is ad hoc charter. You’ll be sitting at home, the phone rings and within ah hour you are on your way to some airfield in Norway to pick up oilfield parts.

Moggy

Problem solved – I could never do that job. Wouldn’t be able to be ready quick enough – would need at least an hour’s notice to get my makeup on and pack my bag!!!

They’ll be training in DA42s soon.

Negative 🙁

I guess before they offer you a job, they would want a good look at your logbook.
(Apologies to Moggy- any luck yet ?)

I’m sure you are right Steve.

But bear in mind the nature of the job. A lot of Atlantic’s work is ad hoc charter. You’ll be sitting at home, the phone rings and within ah hour you are on your way to some airfield in Norway to pick up oilfield parts.

No schedules (just short deadlines), no passengers, just a couple of hours in an Electra to mull over your trip to some airshow or other in the Proctor the following weekend. Or is it the Anson, or the Dove? And the training was free. And you aren’t paying for the fuel.

It surely isn’t Easy or Ryan.

Moggy

Trust me, you’ll regret it.

It’s not often I disagree with Moggy, but…

As I’ve said, I went for Pilot with the RAF. Didn’t make it, but did spend a week on a Jaguar Squadron, seeing how ‘the job’ would be. I got a couple of back seat rides in Jag T2’s, mind blowing stuff and the kind of experience you never forget.

But 13 years on, I sit here at home with a good job, a nice house, my fiancee, a stable home, nobody shooting at me, and the knowledge that when I want to go flying I’m not constrained by waypoints, times on target, headings, heights, speeds, missions. That wouldn’t have been flying. It would have been operating an aerial weapons system. Slightly different to Commercial flying, but the principle is this:

I have a PPL, and I fly for fun.

So no regrets here, nor will there ever be. 🙂

At this rate it would almost be time to post a poll to vote for Flying Chick applying or not to the offer 🙂

FC, how long till the end of your studies as a lawyer? My view is that it may be worth finishing them as a back-up plan, unless the end would put you out of the age bracket… I suppose there will be more offers in the future, no?

Everybody, is this like a really one-off thing that will never represent itself again or are there usually a couple of them a year (by different airline)?

As for me, except for being 2 years out (I’m 28), I have an almost perfect profile for it. But would I really spend my life flying commercial? Despite my love of flying, I can’t seem to find enough in me to say yes.

Whatever you do, enjoy it!
Cheers,
Steph

Will be qualified by the time I’m 23. So could do it after if I wanted to. Think I would rather be a lawyer though – my attitude to commercial flying is a bit like yours Steph. Wouldn’t mind doing it but it’s not really my idea of great fun, not really my kind of flying. But then I guess you don’t know until you try it do you?!

Atlantic / Atlantique are very keen on training their own pilots their way and this is part of a committment from Mike Collett to put back into aviation in return for what he gets out of it.

This opportunity comes up quite regularly. I know of no other UK company doing anything similar.

Moggy

They seem very unique – In a good way. They operate extremely interesting aircraft and piloting them day in day out, would be much more challenging than flying one of the A320 family.

dme

Atlantic / Atlantique are very keen on training their own pilots their way and this is part of a committment from Mike Collett to put back into aviation in return for what he gets out of it.

This opportunity comes up quite regularly. I know of no other UK company doing anything similar.

Moggy

At this rate it would almost be time to post a poll to vote for Flying Chick applying or not to the offer 🙂

FC, how long till the end of your studies as a lawyer? My view is that it may be worth finishing them as a back-up plan, unless the end would put you out of the age bracket… I suppose there will be more offers in the future, no?

Everybody, is this like a really one-off thing that will never represent itself again or are there usually a couple of them a year (by different airline)?

As for me, except for being 2 years out (I’m 28), I have an almost perfect profile for it. But would I really spend my life flying commercial? Despite my love of flying, I can’t seem to find enough in me to say yes.

Whatever you do, enjoy it!
Cheers,
Steph

Hi DME, it is advertised on their website. http://www.airatlantique.co.uk and then ‘Group Pages’ followed by ‘Group Recruitment’. Good luck!

Andy

Thanks very much Andy.

dme

oh to be half my age …

full marks to Air Atlantique for offering such an opportunity.

Ken

Hope I don’t regret it when I’m middle aged!!!

I’m more than middle-aged.

Trust me, you’ll regret it. You’ll always wonder if you’d have made it. Most don’t, Atlantic / Atlantique have very high standards.

But the ad-hoc charter work, never knowing from one day to the next where you will end up on the next sector, great aircraft, no hassles with self-loading freight. It’s as good as it gets.

Moggy

Yes.

You’d get a first rate training. Earn your twin rating and IR on a Cessna 310 – nice ship, and then go on to train on Electra, one of the most beautiful large aircraft flying today. And get paid for doing it.

Even if you eventually quit and went back to whatever it is you are doing at the moment to earn a living that is so much better, you will at least have had the experience. They can’t take that away from you.

Anyway, Atlantic’s freight charter work and pollution spraying (if they still have the contract) must be about the most interesting commercial flying thats available today.

Does look like you need a PPL to qualify though 🙁

Moggy

Thanks for the replies Moggy, Steve and AF but you’ve just made me feel worse!!! Thing is, I like flying and all but never really fancied commercial flying. I’m training to be a lawyer 😮 😮 😮 😮
Hope I don’t regret it when I’m middle aged!!!

Hi DME, it is advertised on their website. http://www.airatlantique.co.uk and then ‘Group Pages’ followed by ‘Group Recruitment’. Good luck!

Andy

Hi,

where abouts is this being advertised? I can’t seem to find anything on their site.

dme

I am well within the age limit but have no desire to apply. Am I letting a good opportunity pass me by people?

Yes.

You’d get a first rate training. Earn your twin rating and IR on a Cessna 310 – nice ship, and then go on to train on Electra, one of the most beautiful large aircraft flying today. And get paid for doing it.

Even if you eventually quit and went back to whatever it is you are doing at the moment to earn a living that is so much better, you will at least have had the experience. They can’t take that away from you.

Anyway, Atlantic’s freight charter work and pollution spraying (if they still have the contract) must be about the most interesting commercial flying thats available today.

Does look like you need a PPL to qualify though 🙁

Moggy