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unwise of a student who has little mathe matical, scientific and English language ability to invest in a professional pilot's training. An employer will typically impose educational standards, however. A British airline sponsoring an approved course will normally require satisfactory grades in mathematics, science and English language. The approved course guarantees high- quality structured training — "seamless training" in airline jargon. The pupil attains a CPL/IR and usually a "frozen" ATPL, which means that he or she has passed the appropriate ground subject exams and at tained the flying standards, but has yet to achieve the l,500h required for ATPL issue. INTEGRATED GRADUATE The student graduates with 200h flying and up to lOOh in simulators. The approved course is designed to turn out graduates capable of going straight into the right-hand seat of a modern "glass cockpit" airliner. In practice, airlines will probably want to see some experience built up before they offer employment, but it will depend on the market forces prevailing at the time. Air lines tend to re-appraise their hiring criteria rapidly, depending on supply and demand. At present they have a buyers' market, but this will not necessarily be so in a couple of years' time. Capt David Martin, vice-president of mar keting of the British Aerospace (BAe) Flying College and a former principal, sees sound initial aircrew selection as being the key to the College's high student pass rate. "When I joined the RAF, only eight out of 34 students who started flight training got their wings. In those days we used aircraft to select people, and the taxpayer paid the bill." Martin' does not believe that the student who goes to the USA to gain an FAA licence arid instructs to build time before returning to the UK has adequate skills and technical knowledge to make an ideal airline pilot. He commends the disci plined philosophy at Prestwick, and the growing importance of line-oriented flight training (LOFT) to teach the student crew, co-ordination from the beginning — a view shared by Ken Mehan, principal at the Oxford Air Training College. THE "SELF-IMPROVER" The UK CPL candidate may be exempted from taking an approved course by achiev ing 700h relevant flying experience. A candidate with less experience may opt to attend an abridged approved course. Having achieved a PPL and 150h, the approved course student may take the flight test for a BCPL where the "self-improver" has to wait until he has 200h. Both may sit the' exams for the BCPL or for the CPL so that they may upgrade to a CPL once the experience has been gained, usually by basic flying instructing. Some European pilots choose to train cheaply and quickly in the USA either from the start or after gaining PPL experience elsewhere. Having gained an FAA CPL/IR — roughly equivalent to the UK BCPL — and 250h at one of the many US flight schools geared to overseas students, he can return to Europe to convert to the CAA BCPL/TR or its continental equivalent. Bolivar Aviation in Tennessee offers such a course for less than $23,000, including a J-1 visa which enables a foreign student to build time and work temporarily in the USA. Only a few schools can obtain more than the short stay M-l visa, however. "We hope to conduct CPL and ATPL pre-ground school classes this spring," says Bolivar's Keith Elbrow. "These would be taught by CAA-qualified instructors, giving students a thorough knowledge to prepare for the CAA exams in evening classes while undergoing their practical training." FlightSafety runs a large training fleet at Vero Beech, Florida, offering a 28-week FAA CPL/IR course for less than $25,000, and suggests about FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 15 - 21 January, 1992 A B The Opportunity. INITIO TRAINING Some of the best pilots you could hire may not yet know how to fly. jsSMk In hiring your ?^** pilots, you can start with just the right pilots, or just the right people. You may be ike Tyrolean Airways, Austria's largest regional airline; or Korea's ambitious new Asiana Airlines. And you may be like Swissair,' and other carriers we've worked with over the past 20 years. If so, you like'the idea of pilot training from the ground up. You like the idea of hiring your people for who they are, and shaping them into the kind of pilots you want them to become. In short, you'll like the idea of ab initio training at FlightSafety Academy in Vero Beach, Florida. It's where you'll find our young fleet of 80 aircraft, plus faculty and facilities devoted exclusively to airline training. It's where your own people can start without experience and move through multiple ratings and jet transition training to the status of a profes sional pilot or flight officer. And it's where we hope you'll call today so we can tell you more. For more information, please call us at (407) 567-5178. Fax: (407) 567-5228. Or write for a brochure: P.O. Box 2708, Vero Beach, Florida 32961-2708. FlightSafety international
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