Taste of Imagination

I wonder if these ‘schools’ ever vet ‘candidates’ for suitability ❓

i.e can they do up a nut and bolt or have any spatial awareness, prior to training?

Silly me, what am I saying? 🙄
http://www.youneedcommonsenseandprerequisteskillstobeanrovpilot.com

So what are the guidelines that they will use as a benchmark and the other question is…who gets certified out of these schools as "Engineers"….WOW!

So good luck to them and the individuals who go to these courses. I hope it pays of for them.

Nelson,

You should not take personally the comments made. We have all come accross very good pilot/technicians with little experience and some very bad pilots with lots of experience.

The difficulty a lot of guys have with the schools is not necessarily the standard of training but the standard of the trainee. If you are true to your word and genuinely only take in already qualified engineers with an Electronic/hydraulic background then there is no reason that you should not turn out some very good pilots.

The problem is when schools start taking in anyone who can afford the course with no qualification or industry experience. This has appeared to be the case for a long time within some of the established training centres
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I hope your school will be different and hope that the pilots you produce are all successful in their new career path.
I fear that over time it will be the same as the other schools around the world as at the end of the day profit is what we are all here for.

Hi Nelson

Like luckyjim37 states You should not take this personally regarding the comments made . But I only state the facts that there is little work on offer at the moment for trainees ,Yes I am aware you own a falcon but you only need a crew of 4 to do 24 ops or maybe less So whats all the other guys going to do ?.

In my view people should wait until more work is available and even then most of the main companys do there own in house training programs .

Most of the Rov vets on here have stated the same " WAIT " But people still seem to do a rov course all the same and think that the little cert will guarantee them a job " IT WONT " Any way I wish you and your school all the best .

Cheers

Subman

If you have some skills, i.e a trade background in say Electronics/Mechatronics/Hydraulics to ONC/HNC level or similar, then you should be able to get your feet under the table with any company if you are worth your salt.

Having done an ROV course does NOT mean you will get a job.

Nelson, whilst your intentions are good, you will be met with the same attitude as most training companies, unless you are truly different from the rest?
As for hiring 3 pilots from the UK that were no good, surely that’s down to your selection process, or were you just going for the cheapest you could find?

Since when did you have to do a course to apply and be successful at getting a job?
Maybe it’s today’s I must have it handed to me on a plate generation or maybe I’m a grumpy old twat 😕

So, after all who is going to be the master of these trainees? If you want to attract good trainees (with degrees in engineering) they will certainly need to know in advance his experience and his qualifications.

To me it also looks like you naively planned to put you trainees to work in your 12 (!) projects… be careful, next time can be worse than it was with the "bad guys from the UK".

Since when did you have to do a course to apply and be successful at getting a job?
Maybe it’s today’s I must have it handed to me on a plate generation or maybe I’m a grumpy old [banned word] 😕

I kind of disagree with your comment. If you were a plumber or electrician you have to do training to get the relevant qualification. You can not be a diver without doing courses prior to doing the job. The only difference with the ROV industry is we have no standards except the IMCA ones. These are not mandatory as we all know but if you are entering into the industry and are a bit green they appear to be and guys could be sucked into believing they are. The downside is now it appears there is such a negative attitude to anyone who has done one of these courses off their own back that it may start to be detrimental to them when they start to look for work.
Maybe it is not the candidates but the whole working environment as these days without the right piece of paper you are not qualified to get out of bed.