Yep our V tail Bonanza lover is spot on!
If you lost your medical and had a aviation degree what use is it? There is nothing you are qualified to do. You would have to go back to uni and do a masters in something else.
However if you had any science degree, engineering, Finance, Accountancy etc you could walk into a start in that industry, or even into that department in a Airline!!
You also have to consider the cost of all this. 4 years at uni then starting to learn to fly would put you a long way behind in the financial stakes.
For all those who believe that you need a degree to fly a jet this is not true. I would hazard a guess that in Australia the majority of people who fly jets do not hold degrees. AirForce pilots are considered the cream of the crop and they generally don't have degree qualifications. QF cadets generally don't have degrees. Similarly there are plenty of direct entry folks in QF and Virgin who don't hold degrees.
millonario Don't believe everything that the University
PR machine tells you! I was once told by a uni lecturer that his students first jobs out of uni was flying for regional airlines at a time when Hazeltons and Kendalls wanted 1000's of hours before they'd take your resume!!
