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Old 21st Jun 2018, 05:44
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Seagull201
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Dafttemplar,

Read your post.

Mate, you're going about things the wrong way!

I reckon, since you say you're married and that means you got financial obligations, do your flying training part time,
say over 3 years (or longer) until you get the CPL and Night Rating, pay for it yourself , it's about 80k.

Then give yourself another 2 years to pass your Instrument Rating/ATPL subjects and get a Flight Instructor Rating.
You can get a government loan for the Instructor course (25k).
All up, give yourself a 5 year plan to get to the Instructor Rating job level.

Apply for the REX cadet scheme, maybe you could get into that, it's a good deal!

You say you want to get into the airlines, have you done your Higher School Certificate?
What about Maths?
If not, you need at least some Bachelor degree behind you, any degree, there's aviation degrees also available on line.
The airlines don't specify much about the education side, but they secretly look at it and give preference to applicants
that have degrees over another applicant, unless a person has quite a number of years of flying experience, operating
sophisticated aircraft.

Finally, if you're going to just think about airlines, you won't get anywhere, concentrate on being a pilot and your own development
and skill level.
You will find there's a lot of work, time, money and effort involved just to achieve professional entry level qualifications, of a
CPL/Instrument Rating/ATPL subjects and the flying side will have it's ups and downs along the way.

All the best and don't get yourself in too much debt along the way.