Any Suckers?

Windchill

Windchill

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Anyone going for the free flight training if you sign a 4-year contract?

After all, they're so generous you can finance up to $100,000!

Run people, run!
 
Hmmmm. The Air Force has a 10 year commitment for $2M+ worth of training. They don't make you finance it up front. Oh yeah, they'll probably still be in business in 4 years
 
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Hmmmm. The Air Force has a 10 year commitment for $2M+ worth of training.

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Tousche

As an enlisted person, I am hoping to do the two of the things I love most:

Above all: Serving my country
Close second: Flying
 
So there IS demand for airline pilots! Kit Darby was right! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Hey Aloft, I flew right by you yesterday. I love departing on RWY 18 and flying through the valley. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
Since you're looking for suckers, I thought I'd pass along what was in my inbox today...


WANT AN AIRLINE PILOT JOB NOW?

9 WEEKS OF TRAINING SO POWERFUL, AIRLINES WANT OUR GRADUATES NOW!

Our nine week FLIGHT OFFICER SCHOOL is designed for low-time pilots seeking to qualify quickly for airline pilot careers. This intensive training puts you on the same level as any high-time, experienced applicant, with a CRJ or EMBRAER ERJ-145 TYPE RATING. Plus, if you have 1000 plus hours, you may be eligible to upgrade to Captain by the time you reach 1500 hours!

We will guarantee you an interview with one of our airline alliance partners, including: Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp., American Eagle, Colgan Air, Skyways, PSA, and others.

Check out our placement record!

We have immediate openings that must be filled NOW!

Call our Florida campus at 1-866-709-4892 or our Arizona Campus at 1-866-307-7704.

You could be in the right seat of a great airline within a couple of months.
 
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Regional Airline Academy.

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Do you really think RAA is in the same league as Tab? I'm just curious of a few peoples opinions!
 
I got that same ad in my inbox, don't remember signing up for them to email me stuff, but I guess I did!

Doh!
 
Got the same e-mail too. I spoke to them a few months ago about their program. Sounded a lot like DCA to me. Including the price.
 
SJUFLYER, went to DCA with me, and went to RAA after getting his CFI at DCA. He went to a local FBO and got his CFII and MEI really quick. He did RAA's bridge program and is supposed to get his CRJ type rating next week if I remember right. Suppossedly he has an interview with Air Wisky as soon as he's done with his type rating. I guess with their program, you get to skip most of the systems part of class at Air Wisky if hired. I know Skyways hired a buch of their instructors right after they came to DCA and hired 8 of our instructors.
 
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Since you're looking for suckers, I thought I'd pass along what was in my inbox today...


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Damn. That's embarassing.

Regional Airline Academy is pumping out crap like this?
 
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Which company was that with an AZ campus, out of curiousity?

[/ QUOTE ]They started up a very small operation here at willie (2 old cherokees) and dont seem to fly much. Myself and another member of JC were up visiting the tower a few weeks ago and they mentioned that they nearly had to violate the two very first RAA flights. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Hey Missed, thanks again for the tour! Checking out the tower was excellent.

When I went to Willie I checked out RAA as well as ATP and ASU. RAA was just getting set up...the place was almost empty except for a simulator they had up and running. There were two students in the sim, with a couple alleged "retired airline pilots" giving instruction. They were nice guys and all, but I left there feeling pretty uneasy about the place. I felt like they REALLY needed some students, fast. They (the recruiter and the pilots) put on the "hard sell"...and kinda reminded me of used car salesmen or something. Maybe it was just cuz they were so new, I don't know, but my gut told me to keep walking. They only had one plane at the time, but their "fleet" was supposedly arriving soon. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
I called RAA when I found out they were coming to town to see if they needed instructors. The guy asked where I trained and how far along. I told him I was an MEI with nearly 1000/150. He said great, we need instructors especially with your experience.....come on down. When I got there, they immediatley put me in the conference room with two of them and tried to sell me on their CRJ type rating for the everyday low price of $25,000 ... I explained to them that I did not need that with the amount of time I had and was only interested in the instructing job they said they needed filled. They pressed on and continued to piss me off. They said I have too much TT for their operation because their instructors get hired at 700TT with the CRJ type. I finally said thank you, but no thank you and left.

I can't stand people that cannot be honest with people and who intentionally try to mislead them. My short experience with that company really spells out the charactar and management behind the whole operation. It reminded me of what I have read about the poor ATA guys.

IP
 
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