[BIf you buy your FATPL for anything more than £30k you have wasted your money. If you are smart and play the system right, that is all it should cost you!!
For that reason, if you have a £100k debt then you are a mug because you will have to pay it back and you could have got away with paying a lot less.
This then leads onto the desperation to get that first jet job so you can pay the money back and hence the desire to "work for free" so you can pay it back ASAP!
If you hadnt clocked up such a big debt then you wouldnt be so desperate to get the experience to get that job that pays so much!![/B]
With fees I would say the figure is close to £35k.
Do consider though, the likes of BA will not hire a newbie unless he/she has been through an integrated course (in other words BA will not hire you unless you are rich or willing to live in poverty). Now most pilots don’t believe for one minute that modular students are inferior than integrated but apparently this is what a “study” of new recruits back in the 90’s “proved” at BA.
This is why far too many people (nutcases) out there pay £60k (in reality 100k if you consider interest and lost earnings) for flying training that can be achieved at half the cost. Also this is what BMI, Excel and a several others supposedly want….well that’s what it says in the flight school brochures anyway! Integrated training is big business.