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Airline Pilot Training?

  • 13-02-2008 10:42pm
    #1
    Jizzer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭


    Hi,

    If I have posted in the wrong area I apologise.

    Does anyone know if any Airlines offer pilot training?

    Or is it a case of doing the training yourself and funding this?

    The PTC do a 14 month course.

    Have been thinking of making a career change. And this is something I have been thinking about for a while.

    Just want to see if I can get the training as part of the job rather than borrowing heavily to do the 14 monther in Waterford.

    Thanks in Advance,
    J.


Comments

  • #2
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    No.......dont think theres any airlines that take students as such

    Have to fund it all yerself now unfortunately


  • #3
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    Have a read of the sticky above, OP.

    Some interesting links there.


  • #4
    ch252
    Closed Accounts Posts: 668 ✭✭✭ch252


    Aer Lingus used to, but they stopped that, they were the only ones to ever do it. So you will have to pay around 40k for training, (correct me if I'm wrong, but I read these figures on other forums) and then you will be expected, say for aer arann to pay about 15k for type training on their atr's etc.

    Darragh


  • #5
    Jizzer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Jizzer


    Thanks for the replies.

    The 14 monther with PTC in Waterford is €85K as I got a brochure from them on the course. Will have to take out a small mortgage :(

    And I think Waterford is the only place offering such a course.

    They say that the 14 month course will enable you to work for any European Airline. And that 98% of people get jobs withing 2 months.

    Might go down to one of their open days.


  • #6
    cp251
    Closed Accounts Posts: 476 ✭✭cp251


    You can also train at the National Flight centre in Weston. It's not so structured though. That is about to change I believe.
    And that 98% of people get jobs withing 2 months.

    Be very, very careful when you are told something like that. I'm not saying they are lying but it simply is not that easy. Just because it happened in the past, doesn't mean it will happen in the future. Remember you will come out with something like 250 hours at most from the course. That does not make you the most employable pilot out there.

    It is true that at the moment both Aer Arann and Ryanair are recruiting, in 14 months, who knows? I might add that both require you pay for your own training in order to get a type rating. So you need to budget another 25,000 Euro for that. I would suggest you also budget for an instructors course after the CPL. Then you will definitely get a job, albeit with long hours and low pay. PTC may indeed hire you. That 98% may well include those who became instructors. Usually instructors get into an airline within a year and half.

    Don't dismiss looking for training abroad. Somewhere with better weather. What some people do is train somewhere like South Africa or the USA or and then convert their licences to JAA back here. There is a short conversion course.

    Good luck with what ever you do.


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