Originally Posted by
flyingdoctor357
Just looking for any perspectives here: engineering graduate in the UK (fallback!), I hold offers to both CAE (Gatwick) and FTEJerez for their fATPL programmes and I'm wondering whether anyone has anything good or bad to say about either of them.
Before someone chimes in with modular is cheaper; the funding I have is about 75% from the family who would much rather see me on an integrated course despite the financial ramifications.
Any input or recommendations are appreciated as always
What has caused your family to take that view? Something must have, my guess is perhaps fancy marketing brochures with pictures of 19 year olds with 4 gold stripes, a bomber jacket and RayBans? It’s all guff, you get the same bit of paper at the end.
As excellent and respected posters have said (when Alex Whittingham replies, listen) already, integrated schools risk becoming a bit of a pyramid scheme with regards to their financial bedrock. It all collapses and you’re in a far worse position being integrated than modular.
You are in a sausage factory if you go integrated, the last thing you want in the current climate is to have your licence issue date controlled by the school. Go modular and you can control it, you want to be able to time it when the jobs are, as they are now, finally re-emerging.
If it’s just arrogance then, ultimately, at least it’s mostly their money they’re wasting and not yours.