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Old 3rd Sep 2018, 22:36
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Flying Bear
 
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There is no substitute for hours in the logbook or industry experience, unless you’re tied up in some cadet scheme.

Find a good school, with experienced and dedicated instructors, and you’ll learn all the theory and gain all the knowledge you need to make a start. Unless you think you will go straight from flying school into an airline - an employer in GA will not care much if you have a degree or not. Better those three or so years be spent chasing on the job experience, perhaps.

Last I looked, the airlines run their own testing and your competitiveness for getting in is a function of how you acquit yourself at those tests. The opportunity to do those tests comes once the minimum experience requirements are met (but these are less distinct now, it would seem).
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