leave the lad alone, if you have a problem with discrete threads, don't bother to reply!
scarebus, i learnt to fly with no science/maths background at all beyond gcse and got by fine by putting in a few extra hours. however i got binned on eyesight, despite trying every way to get round it. only option that MIGHT have worked was to have gone nav (though nb that still has pretty strict criteria, just not as strict as pilot) and then transferred at a later date, which happened a few times, especially on the rotary fleet - so you might want to think about that.
otherwise you might be left with the commerical airlines as your only option -
at least the money is better