Congratulation JB wow a comercial pilot,good luck and keen a possitive mind you will reach your gold, and soon perhaps youll be a second officer to become later a Capitain.. of a heavy one,just keep on Buddy!

Congratulations, now for the hard(er) part!

Awesome....but couldn't you have just gone to a FBO...?

What does the cadet program do?

Thanks for the congrats and interest.

The cadet scheme will take on young pilots with little or no experience. I am still not sure about how easyjet fit in, as so far I have only dealt with their training company CTC Aviation. As I understand it, CTC will take me on with no experience and over the course of approx 2 years, have me qualified to be a FO in a jet such as A320 or 737 (in the case of easyjet). This CTC company are partners with a whole bunch of british airlines, EasyJet, Monarch, Thompson, to name a few. The idea is that you are guaranteed a job with one of these upon completion of training.

The only downside I can see at this early stage (I will be able to clear this stuff up on my interview day when I can have a chat with the folks who run the scheme) is that, for someone like me with literally no experience, they run a self-funded intensive course to get your PPL. Its the self funded part that im worried about, they have links with banks who will offer loans and such specifically for this purpose, but added to the top of my student loan, im gonna be oweing alot of people a lot of money! After that everything is paid for (including a salary)

As I say, it is all early days and theres alot of stuff I will need to clear up when I actually get to talk to someone.

JB

Good luck! I've looked into this scheme before and it sounds quite promising, sadly im a bit young to be worrying about it yet, and frankly i want to join the RAF first, and then go commercial. 

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I personally dont wear glasses and my vision is very good. But at my ATC squadron about 1/3 of the cadets need to where glasses, and many of them have quite a few flying hours on the Grob tutor. I dont see that your vision could hold you back from getting into the ATC.  ??? Maybe times have changed....

But im just lucky that i have this oppurtunity to get flying experience at a relitively young age, which would make me more desirable for the RAF or an airline such as EasyJet.

But anyway.
I wish you all the best and i hope your dream to fly becomes reality! 

Congratulation  , wish you all the best hope you make it