Originally Posted by
Tomasiskfranco
Hi everyone
I literally discovered this forum today and I can not believe the ammount of useful info that there is here.
Before I ask anything i would like to state a bit of my background. I wanted to be a pilot for four years now and I am planning to try a modular training in Dublin as soon as possible.
Getting to my questions, my first is how can i do my hour building?. I am planning to get a job to help me with the costs, but it will be hard for me to pay. I was wondering where to do it (it is impossible for me to leave ireland to do hour building, though i might be able to do a bit in Argentina).
The cheapest PPL that i found was 8000 in an flightschool outside of Dublin, and the modular seems very convenient to me. But it has a MEIR for 19000 euro, which is the most expensive of all of the frozen ATPL course. Am i getting ripped off here?
Another question which is crucial is that is it possible to be a pilot in Europe? Aren't there too many pilots with no kob at the moment? Or is thete a good chance?
Thanks to whoever answers, it would help me a lot.
I assume you're talking about National Flight Centre just outside of Dublin?
Hour building - if you can't leave Ireland your options are limited, Waterford Aero Club has a 40 hour package for €7470 (maybe do look outside Ireland though as you could even be able to do it a few blocks at a time if it saves you a lot of money)
MEIR - if it is NFC the price is a bit closer to 20k, I tried to see how much AFTA in Cork charge but they don't list a price, I looked a competitively priced flight school in Spain that charges 16,450 though. Keeping in mind that Ireland is a more expensive place to learn how to fly in general, 19k or 20k doesn't seem too outrageous.
Jobs market - there's a
thread on this in the
Interviews, jobs & sponsorship forums that makes for interesting reading. As I'm still a student pilot I don't have first hand information, sorry.