Right - Got it!!
Course @ uni runs for 3 years. 50 hours a summer for 3 summers gives me my 150 hrs. First summer (2004), take girlfriend and friends to States to do some cross country flying and check out the sights for a few weeks. Second summer, concentrate on the flying and make some notes on what needs brushing up. Take girlfriend, but make this more of formal. Third summer (2006) sit ATPLs, would have done ground school by then and finish off the 150 hrs with some ATPL knowledge and can really concentrate on the flying with my new found ATPL knowledge. Return to england and get job with some electrical company or computer firm if nothing comes up in the aviation engineering and complete CPL. Finish CPL and continue working full time to fund IR. To be continued..................................
This isn't such a crazy plan is it??
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MJ - thanks for the advice. I've already been in touch with Dylan. It was good to hear from an instructor