Originally Posted by
Upintheaironeday
Thanks for the advice Rudestuff, the degree doesn’t cost me anything upfront, as in it would be via student finance which then gets paid back once you start earning over 25k a year - so even if I ditch the degree to get more hours (which is an option) then it wouldn’t give me any upfront money to put towards any flight training if that makes sense. I could of course ditch it for more working hours to allow me to save more, I just know from the aviation college they put you in to a lot of contacts at the airport so I was hoping it would also help me get a job in that area (as I can still work full time technically if they will fit the hours around the 1.5 days per week) but of course it’s an option to just try and get a job, but there isn’t much at the airport the moment (I’ve been looking) - I’ve got until mid Sept to secure something before the course, I will be trying to do that in the mean time and hopefully something will come up
Do the degree and you’re just tacking on an extra decade (minimum) of student loans. In the nicest way that degree is going to be worth not the paper it’s written on. You don’t need it to be a pilot, and it’s not going to be any use for anything else. It looks neat on the prospectus I’m sure and it’ll be interesting, but what are you getting for your tens of thousands of pounds that you’ll ultimately pay?
Want to be a pilot? Learn to be a pilot.