When BA ran out of apprentices some years ago they had a scheme to take people with an auto background and gave them a cross over course into aircraft engineering as fitters. SOME auto engs I have known have made the transition easily-SOME aircraft engineers cant fix theirs or anyone elses car---
Seriously-at the moment I would stick to being a really good and hopefully well payed auto eng rather than what the aircraft eng trade is going through-and will go through for the next 5 years???