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.
€19,000 for an MEIR sounds crazy to me.
I don’t know what it is that’s tying you to doing your hour building in Ireland but if you can be a bit more flexible with where you do the training then you can get a MEP, MEIR and CPL for almost the same price as you are quoting for just doing MEIR. There’s a few good schools in Poland.
I’ve seen Rudestuff advising that you can save a bit by doing SEIR first so maybe read back on some of his posts.
You can do your PPL and hour building in a local flying club and do your ATPL theory here in Ireland or by distance learning with a foreign school. That only means you would have to go abroad for the time it takes to do MEP, MEIR and CPL (less than three months I would think).