The present tsunami has severely knocked potential junior birdmen off course for five years perhaps.
Rudestuff is quite right..’if you want it to happen you will make it happen.’
Those who reckon that they have past their “tipping point” age, then private flying beckons. Enjoy it.
For those who feel that their time will come, it will.
As I tell those students self funding/modular, the analogy is a bit like joining the Church, you need to believe in GOD.
You have probably wanted to from the age of say ten.
“Plane daft”. Nothing else as a way of life.
And for those who succeed it is “better than having to work for a living”.
Those who think of joining for “the status”( parents who force their kids into medicine) or “the money”, go instead and join a hedge fund as a worker. Cheaper for the Bank of Mum & Dad.
These, in my view, are the acidic tests to be achieved.
As has been pointed out “age is just a number”