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Old 2nd Jan 2006, 17:52
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Frank Furillo
 
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Re: Advice to become a pilot

lockton9334 I don't mean to be a pessimist....but £75K is a H LL of a lot of money to borrow, even at your age. Also you are basing everything on passing first time, PPL, ATPL's, CPL, ME and IR!! That is a pretty tall order, not impossible but very hard.
The IR pass rate alone, is arround 1 in 3 first time pass, the resit is going to hit you for £1000. I got lucky, I passed mine 1st time.
I have no reason to believe that going intergrated will help your chances of getting a job, it's all down to marketing.
As somebody who spent most of his working life selling almost every make of car I think I might know a little bit about marketing a product.

It helps to have a realistic ammount of reserve money or finance just in case.
Modular or Intergrated it all costs lots of money, whatever you decide to do good luck.
FF

Nevs, just to let you know, I did my Modular in 2 years. I had 0 flight hours and worked part time during my Distance Learning.
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