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Old 13th March 2023 | 23:27
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spitfirejock
 
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From: Palm Beach
I'm with Richard H.
As repeated hundreds of times, there is no such thing as a guaranteed job, but it certainly helps the marketing hype and the high price tag to promise one!

You can achieve the same at up to 50% less cost and very much less exposure and risk (less money up front). Look at the very best modular schools, there are some very good ones, look to the USA (where most of the training is done anyway, even at CAE), go for a UK and/or EASA approved school in the USA, current exchange rate for $70K means around 55K UKP for PPL/CPL/IR/ME/APS MCC UPRT......PM me if you want some specifics as I avoid making recommendations on this site for obvious reasons.

Currently, graduates from the better modular schools are being hired just as frequently as from the so called big schools. Sadly for the industry in general, all the heavy advertising is done bye the bigger schools so quite often people are just unaware of the many choices they really have, so search the list of UK schools overseas on the CAA website if that is the license you are looking for or EASA's website if you are looking for that.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting a very focused and determined young man who landed his first airline job as a 21 year old who told me his total spend was just 55K UKP, he had no loans outstanding, he parents contributed just 20K pounds and he earned the rest by working...it took him just 30 months...I'm sure there are many success stories like this one, but they are likely too busy flying to post!

SJ
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