Originally Posted by
VariablePitchP
You’re not too old..!
Glad that’s out the way, you could easily be flying a jet by 40 and a captain on the other side of £150K by 45.
Congratulations on getting to where you are now financially, that sort of outlook may make the Modular route a no-brainer for you. Have to be all over it in terms of your admin and driving yourself forward to finish the training. But that doesn’t look like it’ll be a problem, so you’ll get fully qualified for maybe £65-70K realistically. If you were 18 years old with nothing more than Call of Duty on your CV then having your hand held by an integrated school for an extra £25K might be worth it, but you don’t need that.
You make a good point about the airline schemes. The sponsored ones, BA TUI and Aer Lingus so far would be golden tickets. No financial risk, direct route to the flight deck. They haven’t necessarily opened March/April time, from memory BA’s first iteration was last autumn(?) You can’t be missing them though, there’s already been 5 open wings across the UK industry in the last couple of years which it looks like you’ve not been applying for. You need to carpet bomb those applications and put your all into them. You could be doing a PPL and starting the Modular route with hour building on the side whilst you do that, would be an option. Then if they don’t work smash the ATPLs out and sprint finish the commercial licence.
Easyjet MPL? To be honest most of the hate it gets is probably routed in a bit of jealousy that people can drop the c.£110K into it and go straight into the RHS of an A320. It got a bit prickly over covid, but in reality all you’d have had to do is just wait it out and it was all fine, and that didn’t effect that many people in the grand scheme of things. It gives you a rapid route to getting your 500 hours of jet time. Once you’ve got that in the logbook you can just bin easy and head elsewhere to a BA/DHL/J2 anyway, whatever takes your fancy. Consider it anyway.
And in the grand scheme of things, if you dropped £100K and nothing came from it, would it actually be life changing my bad for you. Based on what you’ve said, probably not? You’d have some more mortgage, but meh. Alternative is to get to 60 and kick yourself until the end of time for not giving it a go. Play your cards right and instead you could be sat in the captain’s seat of a wide body aircraft by that point.
That is a great outlook and thanks for the advice. Now to start putting the hours and research in
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