Originally Posted by
supergimp
Effortless
An ATPL theory takes 6 months, 9:00 – 17:00, 5 days a week, add another two hours per night for further study, providing you pass everything first time, which many do not. Flight training takes 10 weeks, averaging 4 hours per day. You show me a student alive today that puts that much work into his studies for the average degree.
Any engineer, physicist, mathematician, even me, a poor old biologist, yes I did go to university when Her Majesty needed me no longer and let me tell you that it was harder than flying training in its intellectual demands.
If it is any consolation, a degree is getting more like flying training since students are required less to enquire and more to learn by rote.
In flying training you learn by practice not by enquiry. I do not remember any of my instructors asking me to add my tuppence worth. My third year project however was published.