Originally Posted by Whirlygig
The ATPL is treated the same as ACA, CIMA, ACCA and other professional organisations in that they are classed as NVQ5 and hence grants are not available!
Whirls
The ATPL is nowhere near the same level as ACA, CIMA etc. For a start chartered qualifications require a degree level education to start the training.
At the end of the day, ATPL is a bog standard vocational qualification at about level 3 if you are lucky. Its an expensive bog standard level, no doubting that.
Chartered qualifications include the various engineering disciplines and I remember and instructor at Oxford commenting that ATPL was nowhere near being an engineer.
Engineers design and build planes, pilots bend them.