Right. My situation is the following.
I'm currently going to start the 2nd year of a 4-year undergrad course in law at a university in England. However, I want to be a commercial pilot at some point (I've always wanted to, actually). So my career outline is something like finish university, qualify as a solicitor (job security - should I get medically ineligible to fly or should the airline business crash, I'll still have a good albeit boring job to fall back to), work
x years in the business, then suddenly tell the firm it's over and enroll at, say, Oxford Aviation Training or something similar.
My questions are the following:
(1) Is this, at all, a viable plan?
(2) I'm currently 20. I'll be 22 when I finish. Qualification and stuff takes 3 more years. Means I'll be 25 (26, actually) when I really get started with work. Add
x years work afterwards. How large should
x be that it allows me to do flight school ideally debt-free or at least with a small debt that I could repay from a solicitor's earnings (decent firms, ie. Magic Circle or runner-ups to that), but small enough that I would still be eligible for a decent airline job (ie. not too old)?
(3) Should I do a PPL during work/qual years? It would necessarily increase
x, but I'd start flight training with something in my pocket. Is it worth it at all if your ambitions lie in the direction of an ATPL?
(4) Any further advice?
Thanks in advance.
