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Old 2nd Jan 2004, 17:16
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It is a question of balancing your aspirations with reasonable expectations at your age.

If you can afford it, without putting yourself into significant debt, why not start the process of obtaining a CPL/IR.

1. Obtain a class one medical. No point spending any money on training if there is a problem here.

2. Modular groundschool first: Pilot mag ,and Flight International to name but two sources of adverts for this phase. The other option is a full time integrated course - say, Oxford, Jerez

3. Single-engine flying for the SEP[land] rating.

4. Multi-engine flying for IRT & MEP [land] rating.

5. Licence issue.

6. Flying Instructor's course.

7. MCC course if multi-crew flying a possibility.

Bottom line - employment is not certain at your tender age. Do the training as a challenge. Any employment must be regarded as a bonus not a certainty.
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