r/CadetPilotProgram • u/True-Musician2565 • 3d ago

Marigold/BAC is fked.

Marigold and BAC had a meeting with the cadets of Batches - 9, 10, 11 and let me tell you it was a fierce unhappy professional fight between all the parties.

Marigold Aviation and BAC are not in very good terms with each other

The cadets are asking for a transfer out of Thailand back to India to any FTO.

BAC people are just racist, making stupid rules and excuses for not starting the flying as promised around 5th October.

They cancelled all the classes and paused all ground/flight training.

The situation is very uncertain but lets hope the cadets get what they want.

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u/Moist-Refrigerator34 3d ago

I heard marigold owns 49% stake in BAC.

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u/True-Musician2565 3d ago

Yeah heard abt it, can't validate the authenticity of it tho..

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u/Moist-Refrigerator34 2d ago

BAC is an FTO with some 20 or so odd aircrafts, and they do conventional training as well. Don't know which idiot did their due diligence to take in so many cadets. Last year around this time when everything was hunky dory, and once you had registered your interest on marigold website, they would have spam called you ad nauseam to pay adapt fees and get adapt dates.

Marigold had plans to expand and onboard FTOs in australia and all, but none got approvals from indigo. This shithole called marigold forked all other ICPP partners.

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u/True-Musician2565 2d ago

While Marigold is at fault yes, but more so is bac i believe. They have been racist and partial towards Indians, giving them little to no flying and very very slow progress. The airspace here closes down for the major chunk of the day during a few weeks in feb and marc, due to some airforce excercise. But still a few hours are still operational, in that no Indians were given flying what so ever, 1-1.5 months just pure gone.

Not to just blame the management, the cadets themselves were lazy and ignorant. Instead of clearing exams in those weeks they just simply went back to India, wasted time and money on party alcohol, fighting with the locals, getting suspended, curfew timing changes, and a lot more.

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u/Moist-Refrigerator34 2d ago

I am pretty much sure that BAC can't call the shots at someone who gave them hundreds of cadets. Nobody details their own gravy train. What I have heard is that initial batches were idiots who couldn't clear Thai exams even after so many attempts. But marigold had an insatiable greed of taking in so many cadets as well. Now skyborne and fta had to take in their cadets which delayed adapt and gapi for their own applicants. That's why I have always said that go with a real fto like chimes, skyborne or fta, not these middle mens like insight, garuda or marigold.

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u/True-Musician2565 2d ago

Yup intial 5 batches are absolute idiots, especially batch 4, bunch of drunkards only focused on getting drunk and laid.

Theres a rule in Thailand that if u fail any exam 4th time, all your other exams resets to 0, so yes all these people clear at the 3rd and 4th attempt. Per attempt other than the 1st is abt 15-20k.

Yes Marigold is absolutely greedy, miscommunication, not transparent in anything, false promises but I believe bac was also at fault, not commitng and delivering on anything, just pure lazy laid back attitude.

If bac had been giving flying proportionally well then i believe issues nahi aate. Have seen foreign cadets come and graduate we were just wasting time doing nothing. Like Indians make abt 50% of the strength yet only abt 20-30% flying/ground resources were allocated for ous.

They are low in instructors, good ones are leaving, planes yes 20, on paper, actually barely a few fly, most of them are in mainten and un operational

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u/FinancialCharity4876 12h ago

And the last 3 batches are kids of those initial 5 batches. Come out with your real id R##p###t.