Good evening all,
I went along to the Tayside Aviation open day today as I’m looking to start my flight training towards a career as an airline pilot. The owner gave a presentation and focused on their degree program which seemed attractive and something not offered by other flight schools. Does anybody have any experience of doing this degree through middlesex university?
The school have links with loganair too it seems which seems a plus. However I was speaking to a few instructors (I think they were halfway through their course or so) and some mentioned on retrospect they would not have done the degree. It works out much more expensive and you do a flight instructor rating first then it seems the school will decide when you do your instrument flight course. Apparently this is a way of trapping you into working for the school as you can’t apply to airlines without the instrument flight course?
I was also told in a roundabout way that the degree is a bit of a Mickey Mouse degree ? Maybe I should do a uni degree first then go down the flight training route or maybe a degree isn’t required at all?
The presentation seemed very good however having spoken around a bit after to “real students” It doesn’t seem as colourful. I also noticed the twin engine flying course is done on an older steam gauge aircraft compared to the more modern Diamond aircraft at other flight schools. Would this be an advantage or disadvantage doing things in a traditional aircraft?
I also heard that that many have dropped out of the degree and found themselves jobs with airlines so bypassing the flight instructor route all together? I also noticed a lot of the instructors there were degree students, I am paying a lot of money for flight training so my concern was I might be getting taught by inexperienced instructors and this may actually cost more in the long run if I need for lessons etc?
The place seemed okay though, I’m dubious about the degree but it would be great if anybody here could share any experience of training at the school, more specifically and personal experience on their degree program would be appreciated?
Thanks reading,
S