Originally Posted by
Bravo73
At this point in time, you are more likely to make a career out of FW flying. RW flying (particularly the offshore sector that you seem to be aiming for) is still struggling to recover from a historically long period of low oil & gas prices. For most UK offshore flying, you will also have limited places that you could reasonably live.
That was what I thought, hence looking at the FW route. Only concern is poor roster patterns.
Originally Posted by
rudestuff
So how much FW and FW PIC?
FW only about 70 hours of which maybe 5 or 6 PIC. Having done some enquiring it seems an ATPL(H)/IR or CPL(A)/IR will cost about the same, c.£25,000 once I have used my military learning and resettlement credits.