Chaps
Many many thanks for all your best wishes etc, I do appreciate it.
A few questions to answer, I’ll try and do my best.
Andrew, flybe were recruiting for their Belfast or IOM bases, originally I thought I was going to be going to Belfast as a friend of mine has just started his conversion course and has been told he is based there, so it was a surprise to get the IOM.
1L, yes mate plenty of Vodka, or plenty of Australian white that’s for sure 😉
James, not sure about the jump seat but I am sure the skipper won’t mind the odd cockpit visit or 2 on the ground
Sam, my route, I’ll give a brief overview of everything I have done & the timescales etc
2001 – 2003 PPL at Bristol Flying Centre
2003 – 2005 Hour Building – Bristol Flying Centre & Aeros Filton
Feb 2005 ATPL groundschool Scholarship from PPRuNe
Feb 2005 GAPAN Aptitude test – RAF Cranwell, result – High chance of success.
July – Nov 2005 Mod 1 ATPL groundschool with Bristol Groundschool
Dec – Jan 2005/2006 Night Qual, Aeros Flight Training Filton
Jan – May 2006 Mod 2 ATPL groundschool with Bristol Groundschool
July – Oct 2006 Hour building – Aeros Flight Training Staverton
Oct – Nov 2006 Commercial Pilot’s Licence – Aeros Flight Training Staverton
Jan – March 2007 Instrument Rating – Aeros Flight Training Staverton
April 2007 MCC – Flight Safety in Farnborough – Saab 340
May 2007 Flight Instructor’s Course – Aeros Staverton
June 2007 Landed a Flight Instructor’s job with Aeros (right place, right time)
June 2007 flybe interview
July 2007 flybe sim assessment – Flight Safety Farnborough – Saab 340
Today – Told I was successful and that they want me based at the IOM
Total cost to myself £55,500
£2,600 of CPL paid for by my company as part of a closure agreement
£1,900 (all of ATPL groundschool) paid for by PPRuNe, which I have to pay back.
So I went modular, I paid for everything myself (well most of it), no CTC or Oxford etc etc
Tartan, I’ll see what I can do mate 😉
wannabe pilot
Basically yes, we have to pack up and move to the IOM, however, flybe have given me another option, I can go into a hold pool (I’ll be the only one there, they have just emptied it) I can wait until the current bidding system is done (in the next 4 weeks or so) and then see if there is another base available on the mainland, so catch 22 really, if I accept the IOM base I can start my type rating in 2 weeks, if I go into the hold pool I will have to start it in September, but there are no guarantees of any base, it’s what’s available after all the bids have been dealt with etc, so it could be Belfast, or still the IOM, or I may get lucky and it’s Exeter or Birmingham. The wife and I are still pondering the options, most of me wants to start it now, but is that fair to the wife etc? she is willing to relocate no problems, but there are a lack of flights from the IOM to near where I live at the right price, which is irrelevant really, I just want to start 🙂
Flybe were more than happy to accept me with no airline hrs, with sim time I have about 320hrs in total, so not alot, I did offer them 4 years managerial experience, so maybe that counted for me, who knows.
Flybe was my first interview, I was a bit lax, because I knew I had the interview I held off sending out the CVs until recently, have had a few replies but no other interview to date, I have only sent out 5 CVs in total.
6 routes from the IOM, yes I think it could become a tad tedious after a few years, but the good thing is that they add new routes all the time, and every 6 months they have a bidding system for bases, so I can bid for a different base and hope I get it, I am a 1 company man, so I intend to stay at flybe for as long as I am happy, I guess the next port of call is the Emb195
I’ll send you a PM tomorrow, it’s 1am now 😮
EGNM, glad you have something positive to say about the IOM, all I have heard all day is bad reports lol.
Thanks shamrock, appreciated
Dean
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