Originally Posted by
hazza4257
Appreciate the wisdom. In fact it’s a bachelors so cost even more! I figured I was going to “uni” anyway, may as well do the extra two years and maybe it’ll be the difference when going for an airline job 10+ years down the track.
Think I’ll put the MECIR aside til I get a first job, in the meantime try and find a 206 and do some cross country.
The degree isn't going to mean much on a resume, but any degree shows a level of commitment and critical thinking, so yes may as well do aviation! Valuable networking as well.
I always advise my studes to wait until around 500 hours to do ME and IFR. They are difficult courses and you need to be really comfortable with your flying before dealing with things like EFATO in a light twin on a go-around at night or an instrument approach in sever turbulence and if you are working they will be tax deductible, someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think you can access VET funding as well for these (may have to do it as a Diploma course)
Example of my stude who finished Day VFR single 200 hour course with me, come out with 130 in command; two years later he's done six months of joy flights, one season of fire spotting and then survey work. 800 hours command time in two years and just done his ME and IFR and ATPL subjects, now going for airline interviews, he will be a captain long long before the ones who come out of flying school with 70 hours in command, no matter how many qualifications they have or how quickly they get into a RHS. And this is the thing, how many years do you want to spend as an FO?