What happens after stage 3
Signing the contract with CAE, conditional offer, & preparations
17 Aug 2026
There’s been a slight gap since my last post on passing the stage 3 selection, so, what’s been happening since then?
Well, about a week after getting the notification I’d been successful, I was sent some enrolment documents for the course starting on the 4th January 2027. It contained confirmation of the total fixed course cost at €115,000, which includes the A320 type rating, uniforms, and most of the supplies/equipment needed for the training, but it does not include some required items (like an iPad & a headset) or arguably the biggest one, accommodation, which are all non-trivial costs.
The payments are broken down into stages, aligned with the phases of the course, and so you pay each chunk just before you begin that phase. These details of these payments and when they are due was all broken down too, I will share that in another post dedicated to costs later.
The full list of documents provided were:
- A training service agreement (or ‘TSA’) which is essentially the contract with CAE
- The conditional job offer from easyJet
- A few consent forms
- A number of other informational documents including details about the training facility in Crawley
- Some accommodation provider recommendations
- A guide on how to fill out and return the various forms.
The e-mail also specified a number of steps that also needed to be completed before your place on the course was actually confirmed, despite having provisionally booked onto it, which I’ll go into below.
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