Have to agree with Genghis. The Leeds and Salford courses are not aimed at Aerospace engineers, in fact Leeds run a seperate Aerospace Engineering degree. We started the course at Leeds specifically to offer an alternative to Aerospace Engineering mainly for pilots but also for those wanting to go into other aspects of commercial aviation.
If you want to be an engineer do the Aerospace degree, I think these days you really want to be doing an MEng (although Genghis may correct me) as this is the most straight forward way to chartered engineers status. Also, I now it sounds obvious, but if you are doing the engineering degree make sure it is because you want to be an engineer. It is a very difficult course and you really need to be interested in it to succeed. I know as I did Aerospace Engineering at UMIST (now part of Manchester) which was a great course but I didn't find it engaging enough as I really wanted to be a pilot not an engineer.