I find LASORS as lucid as muddy water, can anyone else locate this in LASORS?

Dean

Shocking Dave

Have you got a link to the AAIB report?

Dean

Darren

Are you a pilot mate? if so can you tell me who you fly for?

Thanks

Dean

Hi Tony

Basically theres 3 roads you can take

1st one is Self sponsored, you will then be known as a SSP (self sponsored pilot)
2nd is part sponsorship where you will pay for a portion of your training and probably be bonded to an airline
3rd one is full sponsorship, which is VERY rare today

this is a list of what you need to be able to fly commercially:

PPL (Private Pilot’s Licence)
NR (Night Rating)
ATPL Ground exams (Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence) 14 subjects, a commercial licence without this is basically worthless
MER (Multi Engine Rating) not much use not having this as you will have to fly a twin at some point
IR (Instrument Rating) Speaks for itself, you need this to enable you to fly commercially, just remember the IR has nothing to do with what the weather is like outside, it can be night or day, rain or shine, if you fly IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) the weather can be anything, its the flight rules you follow
CPL (Commercial Pilot’s Licence) it’s with this that you can earn money when flying, without it you cannot sit on any revenue earning flight.
fATPL (Frozen ATPL) basically once you have gained your CPL/IR and have passed the ATPL exams you then hold a fATPL, it becomes unfrozen once you have reached 1500 hrs flight time, and I dont think you can be a commander of an aircraft on a revenue earning flight with a fATPL, it has to be unfrozen, and your ATPL exams are valid for 7 years? if you have not unfrozen your licence in this time you will have to resit all the exams.
MCC (Multi Crew Co operation) this rating speaks for itself, you need it to fly multi crew aircraft, airlines generally require you to have this before you are hired
JOT (Jet Orientation Training) Again, this converts you from piston/turbo props to Jets, this also is generally required by airlines before they will look at you but alot of the time this comes within your Type Rating Course
TR (Type Rating) any turbo prop or jet aircraft require you to have a TR before you can act as part of the crew, this is becoming more and more needed on your CV before airlines will even look at you

Thats all I can think of for now Tony, shout up if Ive missed anything

Dean

p.s. ATPL (h) is your ATPL exams for helicopters, obviously ATPL (a) is fixed wing aircraft

And I had just finished polishing it only a day before I took it up, now look at the state of it!

Those Zebras are quite large beasts R, maybe you need thicker glasses if you didnt see it on the rwy? 😉

Deano, how’d you swing that one then? Like you I have bags of equity in my house so financially it’s a go-er, but obviously I’m keen to look at ways of scagging extra funding elsewhere if possible. Aren’t we all!

I’m on 118 hrs TT, and currently umming and ahhing about the fATPL / CPL issue. Long term goal is to instruct, but in order to do that I need at least a CPL under current rules, but I’m currently undecided on whether to ‘limit’ myself to a CPL, or bite the bullet and do fATPL because of the potential extra opportunities that might bring.

Also, general question to you ATPL / CPL studes, what age brackets are you in? Am I too long in the tooth at 35? (This is likely to have a rather major influence on my decision!).

Steve

Have a read here mate

clicky

basically PPRuNe were going to narrow it to 10 people, interview and aptitude test the 10 and then select the 5 from that, Ive already received an email stating I’ve made the top 5 😀 ( no i havent slipped IFR £100 in his Christmas card 😉 ) so all I have to do is pass the aptitude test and impress them at the interview which should take place in the new year so Im told.
This is a great fund and full credit to PPRuNe & BGS for giving people like me the opportunity to go for it.

As far as your age goes Steve I’d say go for it, Im 32 in April ’05 and Im going for it full on, I dont want to get to 40 and look back and say “if only Id tried”, this way Im going to give it 1 shot and give it 200% and see what happens, even if I can’t cut it at least I can say Ive tried, and as far as age goes Steve, perhaps you would like to peruse this post

clicky

If the good times return (which there is little evidence peeking through at the moment ) then us oldies have every chance of gaining employment, if the pilot shortage everyone is talking about materializes then even R has a chance (only jesting Robert, keep your wig on 😉 )

Let me know how you go etc

Dean

Martin

Good luck mate, Hope all goes well, dont forget my MSN etc if you need a chat etc, support goes a long way when doing the fATPL and it reciprocates

DME
Give me a shout when your going to start your ATPL study mate, could be about the same time as me, also if the timing is right I will be looking to go to Florida too to hr build, maybe we could jet over together etc, see how it goes

Dean

I have no idea except hes standing ontop of another plane.Note the wing.I have no idea.

wot he said ^ 🙂