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Air Corps Careers / Cadetships for Leaving Cert Students

« on: February 22, 2006, 02:31:07 pm »

I think the fact that your school doesn't do physics is about as good as an excuse as you can get for not doing it. Aswell as that, if you keep it up it's gonna be pretty impressive to say you did physics after hours cos your school didn't offer it, cos you thought it'd help your chances for the Air Corps. Also, your First Aid thing from earlier would do you no harm. Dunno about the Mezzogiorno Ronan, but ask me anything about the Massif Central!

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Air Corps Careers / Cadetships for Leaving Cert Students

« on: February 22, 2006, 09:15:45 am »

good points there bigwillie. but I could just as easily say the same thing about flight hours.
A half hour flight lesson is 80 quid. Anybody with a part time job can afford to
get a couple of lessons in, and a lot probably do a couple of weeks/months before the interview,
so they can say it during the interview. So the interviewers are hearing the same thing over and
over again on that point as well. I totally agree with you about the 'vice vice captain six years ago'
sort of stuff, but if you genuinely are into sports, especially if you've some sort of current position
of responsibility, it shows that you've a natural sporting ability, not to mention fitness.
IMO it'll stand to you a lot more than flight hours, which anybody can get. Also, flight hours won't
help you pass the fitness test.

Fox1, if you don't have physics, do you study something like tech drawing or engineering or construction studies or technology? Something that shows your technical aptitude?

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Air Corps Careers / Cadetships for Leaving Cert Students

« on: February 20, 2006, 09:43:12 am »

I would put sport a lot higher in the list. and flight hours way down the bottom.

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Air Corps Careers / Cadetships 2005

« on: January 30, 2005, 01:20:51 pm »

In the fitness test they stop you when you get to 20 sit ups and 20 press ups. They mark your time for the run though.

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Air Corps Careers / Cadetships 2005

« on: August 14, 2004, 05:29:52 pm »

It's still there Ronan, you just have to change the dropdown list at the bottom to show items from the last 60 days, since there hasn't been a post on it for over 30 days.

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Irish Air Corps / Smithy -

« on: July 16, 2004, 11:38:28 pm »

I'd agree with FMolloy on this one. Minister for defence is the job that no-one wants. I think Minister Smith has done the best he could with what he was given. PC 9 was a very good buy in my opinion. And the MATS/Aer Lingus point you make(Pilatus) can hardly be blamed on Smith.

Stevie.

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Irish Air Corps / New Helis - E26 million?

« on: July 07, 2004, 02:19:50 pm »

Fouga which types do you think EC will submit?

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Air Corps Careers / Air Corp Recruit's?

« on: July 07, 2004, 02:15:35 pm »

Actually I just had a look at military.ie and I'm totally wrong! They're taking recruits directly this year. http://www.military.ie/careers/aircorps_recruits.htm
Sorry bout that.

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Air Corps Careers / Air Corp Recruit's?

« on: July 07, 2004, 02:12:37 pm »

I could be wrong on this but as far as I know the air corps only take recruits from other sections of the PDF as required.
You can however join as an apprentice to eventually become an aircraft mechanic. This probably would give you an advantage when going for the cadets.

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Irish Air Corps / Dauphin Programme

« on: July 05, 2004, 09:17:56 pm »

Hello all,

For those of you with digital TV, there's a program on the Dauphin on Discovery Wings at 11 tonight (Monday).

StevieW.

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Irish Air Corps / PC-9M simulator and armaments ?

« on: July 02, 2004, 06:03:00 pm »

The simulator is due in October. It's going to be fixed (i.e. no pneumatics to simulate aircraft movement), with (correct me if I'm wrong on this anybody) 150 degrees Field of View both left and right.

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Irish Air Corps / Helicopter Tender Announced

« on: June 30, 2004, 02:12:51 pm »

I see from IMO the submission date's been extended until 3rd August. Any word on what Eurocopter are going to offer?

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Air Corps News / Helicopter Tender Announced

« on: June 15, 2004, 11:50:01 pm »

What a great sight it would be to see 4 IAC blackhawks. Maybe too good to be true? What about the light heli's then? EC635 would be nice I think. What do the rest of you think? Sealion- there's a lot of discussion about that ship on the boards at irish military online.

StevieW

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Irish Air Corps / Fouga pic

« on: May 13, 2004, 11:06:09 pm »

I checked out the CIT website. They offer a Nat. Cert. in Avionics Engineering. Sounds pretty cool. Ah, if I could go back 5 years and fill out the CAO form again!

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Irish Air Corps / Fouga pic

« on: May 12, 2004, 06:11:54 pm »

Hi Frank,

Great picture, but why is 220 in Carlow IT. Is there some sort of aeronautics course available down there?

StevieW.