Originally Posted by
thelivepilot
What makes you say 6 months ago? I still have 2 years after I finish this year left on my degree, so from what you said it sounds like I should apply sometime in the start of year 2?
The advice was, I think, to just go into training.
You want to be an airline pilot? Then go and be an airline pilot. You’re delaying your career, first job, command, career earnings all by two years and racking up another 30K of debt in the meantime which as a pilot you will pay off.
The two years you delay your start by are the two years you’d be spending at the top of whatever pay scale you choose to end up on. Add in the student debt and interest and you may well be paying £500K for the privilege of finishing a degree that you will never even need to take out of the envelope it’s delivered in.
Thats not to say uni can’t be the best three years of your life, and I’m not convinced I’d agree with the advice entirely, but this is the translation as to what they were getting at.