Originally Posted by
A37575
Excellent advice. Avoid racking up huge loans that inevitably will come back to bite you. With an independent flight school you pay for each flight one at a time and that way keep track of your finances. If after a few hours you decide it is not for you then simply walk away without further debt.
It would be prudent for anyone thinking of doing a cadetship to take some lessons prior to joining one as it will give you an idea of whether you’ll like it or not. But if you count up the cost of gaining a CPL, IR at an independent flight school plus all the theory training it can cost nearly as much as achieving it all via a cadetship. Plus the cadetship will be financially much better in the long run. Apply for all
you can first, and then I’d pursue an independent training path afterwards if you aren’t successful with the cadetships.