Originally Posted by
Negan
Remember as well most pilots are dumb, so if you have an engineering degree you're already smarter than most.
I loved this comment because in some ways it is true. You will often meet undereducated, degree-less, uncultured pilots who have had a perfectly acceptable airline career. You'll also meet some of the brightest, well educated, and cultured pilots. What all, bar a very few, will have is a great attitude to life and work, a natural intelligence which presents as practical problem solvers and a resilience which is becoming hard to find. Which is why some forward thinking airlines are ditching the HR test and qualification selection for something closer to what it was years ago where the Chief Pilot or DFO would look at the entire person and decide if he fitted their criteria for being the right person to employ. Please finish your degree, but don't judge yourself by it as the airlines could be missing out on a really good candidate. this speaking as BA Hons. Fail and 16000 Airbus hours.