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Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

15th Aug 2017, 10:59

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

I was, using irony to do so. :E

I was, using irony to do so. :E

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

15th Aug 2017, 07:41

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

This thread is coming up on 9 years old next...

This thread is coming up on 9 years old next month. Is it getting too long in the tooth to be offering useful advice any more, or is a nine year old thread still capable of being a useful thread on...

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

18th Sep 2013, 16:18

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

I'm an aerospace engineer, and I trained as a...

I'm an aerospace engineer, and I trained as a commercial pilot about your age (modular, in my own time). Rather earlier, I did a couple of PPLs and associated ratings whilst raising a family. So it...

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

15th Aug 2012, 11:28

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

Very well said KAG, I agree with every word. ...

Very well said KAG, I agree with every word.

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Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

14th Aug 2012, 08:34

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

In other words, the more interesting flying jobs,...

In other words, the more interesting flying jobs, if not necessarily the best paid.

Personally, given a free range of full time pilot jobs, airline would be pretty near the bottom. Test would be...

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

10th Jun 2012, 17:28

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

http://www.pprune.org/professional-pilot-training-...

http://www.pprune.org/professional-pilot-training-includes-ground-studies/418583-perpetual-am-i-too-old-thread-2010-11-a.html

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Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

16th Sep 2011, 07:21

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

Look, face the facts, at 28 and 31, you are old...

Look, face the facts, at 28 and 31, you are old and senile, no good whatsoever for anything. Stick to what you're doing now, take early retirement at 50 and expect to be dead by 55.

All this...

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

3rd Jul 2011, 07:58

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

Oh for goodness sake, I was well past 30 before...

Oh for goodness sake, I was well past 30 before people stopped saying I was too young to be given any real responsibility.

Anybody under 45 now is unlikely to retire below 70 anyhow - don't get...

Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

30th Jan 2011, 10:40

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

Just look at Brian May - music career petered...

Just look at Brian May - music career petered out, went back to Astrophysics. Win-Win !

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Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)

29th Jan 2011, 16:38

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Posted By Genghis the Engineer

PLEASE, read the other several dozen threads on...

PLEASE, read the other several dozen threads on this subject already. There's nothing in your question that's not been answered many times already.

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