Fareastdriver, Looks good to me.
I left school at 15 Got an engineering apprenticeship (TF!) 3yrs MN in hot noisy engine rooms (except around Helsinki in Winter when it was comfy) and, thanks to the inability of JFK & Kruschev to play nicely together, was accepted for RAF pilot training. How lucky was that?
I still raise a glass to those two.
You do not need a huge education to be a pilot, either mil or civ.
If you're going on to VSO then that's different.