nico_12
10th Dec 2009, 20:47
Hello everyone!
Thanks in advance for reading and for all the good advices you might give me.
I'm 20, italian and I share with many of you the dream of becoming an airline pilot. I have an appointment at Lufthansa in January to take the first of the three entry tests that lead to their ATPL training, a great chanche since all the costs (60.000 euros) are payed in advance by DLH and since at the end of the training you're most likely offered a place in the airline. Due to their great offer I decided to apply for them right after I finished high school(July 2008). Let's say that after 2 years of waiting I pass all the tests and I get to start the training, wonderful, but what if I don't succeed?
My family won't afford to pay for an integrated or modular training in a private school, nor they would take out a loan and reading what you have to say on this website they're probalby doing the right thing, too expensive not to get a job at the moment.
So here is what I intend to do if I won't pass the entry tests:
I would most likely work till june and then I might fly to the Us to get a JAA PPL which by the time I might probably afford by myself or with a little help from my parents, and then I would definately sign up in a university of my interest to get a degree and see what else in the world might attract me as/less/more than being a pilot. I read on these pages about how great university life can be and I'm really starting to understand it right now, after 2 years of working and waiting to be a pilot in a very uncommon and unconfortable situation that many of you will understand. After my theoretical PPL I would have the chance to build up some hours by towing gliders, we are an important centre for sailplane here in the Alps and I'm working at my Glider pilot licence myself too, so let's say that flying would still be a big part of my university life. Then after the degree(I know it sounds easy said this way but I'm trying to have a general opinion) I would decide whether being a pilot is still my thing or not. By that age I'll surely be more responsible and aware of the value of money.
Now here come the questions:
-What do you think of my eventual backup plan?
-Do you think that it would be possible to become an airline pilot also after univestiy studies (in terms of interest from airlines to over 25 people)?
Right now, if I don't get in at Lufthansa I really don't feel like pushing to go in a private school. There is too much money involved and I don't think I understand the magnitude of it yet.
Thank you very much indeed for any honest reply.
Nick
Thanks in advance for reading and for all the good advices you might give me.
I'm 20, italian and I share with many of you the dream of becoming an airline pilot. I have an appointment at Lufthansa in January to take the first of the three entry tests that lead to their ATPL training, a great chanche since all the costs (60.000 euros) are payed in advance by DLH and since at the end of the training you're most likely offered a place in the airline. Due to their great offer I decided to apply for them right after I finished high school(July 2008). Let's say that after 2 years of waiting I pass all the tests and I get to start the training, wonderful, but what if I don't succeed?
My family won't afford to pay for an integrated or modular training in a private school, nor they would take out a loan and reading what you have to say on this website they're probalby doing the right thing, too expensive not to get a job at the moment.
So here is what I intend to do if I won't pass the entry tests:
I would most likely work till june and then I might fly to the Us to get a JAA PPL which by the time I might probably afford by myself or with a little help from my parents, and then I would definately sign up in a university of my interest to get a degree and see what else in the world might attract me as/less/more than being a pilot. I read on these pages about how great university life can be and I'm really starting to understand it right now, after 2 years of working and waiting to be a pilot in a very uncommon and unconfortable situation that many of you will understand. After my theoretical PPL I would have the chance to build up some hours by towing gliders, we are an important centre for sailplane here in the Alps and I'm working at my Glider pilot licence myself too, so let's say that flying would still be a big part of my university life. Then after the degree(I know it sounds easy said this way but I'm trying to have a general opinion) I would decide whether being a pilot is still my thing or not. By that age I'll surely be more responsible and aware of the value of money.
Now here come the questions:
-What do you think of my eventual backup plan?
-Do you think that it would be possible to become an airline pilot also after univestiy studies (in terms of interest from airlines to over 25 people)?
Right now, if I don't get in at Lufthansa I really don't feel like pushing to go in a private school. There is too much money involved and I don't think I understand the magnitude of it yet.
Thank you very much indeed for any honest reply.
Nick