Sorry to just rip your post chew it up and spit it out but here goes;
I want to assure you that there are few people with 10 hours who know as much about the aviation industry as me.
Says who? A very bold statement to make there. I have less than 7 hours PIC and currently reading through my ATPL books to prepare myself in advance. I'm not the one asking can a be a pilot at 19 with 200/250hrs on my log book.
Both of my parets and my brother are pilots. My mother was a flight instructor, and my dad as been an f-5 pilot, a Boeing 737-200 pilot for 30 years, a captain, and a Chief Flight Instructor at one of the most respectable pilot schools in the world; he has around 20,000 hours logged.
With those links you shouldn't need to ask any questions here really.
In my situation, it is probably best to aim for instructing for at least half a year as, at least, I'll have an income and gain hours (its just that I absolutely stink at teaching); and then I don't risk standing there with an IR and no job (whether airline or instructing). It just seems so perfect to jump straight into an airline job, but you just can't risk it always.
You're happy to pay £5k for an FI and only earn money from it for 6 months?
After all, it is estimated that in costs, equipment, and living expenses, a degree will cost £23-40K!
Been there got the T-shirt and didn't spend anywhere near £23k.
£1,300pa fees x 3
Living expences for 8 months x 3
(According to my parents) it is probably just as easy to get a job as an FI as a graduate job!
Is that right? ... now compare the graduate job salary to an FI's pay (let me help you out - The FI's pay if half of what I was earning in my job in my 1st year as a graduate)
I have already "attended" uni (via distance learning); I started when I was 16! But I have just decided (together with my good source of advice - my parents) that it is much better to focus on getting a pilot job first, and then I can finish off my degrees
So you attended Uni at 16?
On life experience, I have plenty as I have lived all over the world, and I have lived through things that nobody should experience.
Living in a different country doesn't mean you know how to handle a situation at all.
I may have just turned 18 a month ago, but I am educated as and have worked as an aromatherapy, massage, beauty, and spa therapist.
In addition to having trained as professional dancer; and my main occupation is a cosmetic tattooist!
From this I am guessing you're a lady?
I have started one business, and I am currently starting another; but I don't have money burning in my pocket as it is very hard to make a business pay off in the first few years.
Do you want to tell us what the business is and the name of the company?
Thanks for warning me about the ATPL, but I don't have any problems getting high marks academically.
I am capable of more than most people as I have, at the same time, been doing 3 A-levels, 1 Nat. Dip. (equivalent to 3 A-levels), 3 NVQs, a degree part-time, and been starting my business.
What are the qualifications in?
All those qualifications / life experience / running businesses / living all over the world and you've just turned 18 last month?
Since I was 15, people have assumed I was 22-23 because they though I was mature.
Being over 6 foot when I was 15 and being built like a brick sh't house always made people think I was 18/19 too but for somebody to add 5 years to your age would make them a very bad judge of age - make sure these people don't sell drink to 12 year olds.
You can't deny that I have probably experienced more than what you assumed when you heard I was 18.
Tell us about it.
I can assure you that I have done years of research.
And then you come here and ask;
I am about to start my professional pilot training modularly, and I'm wondering whether to do go for instucting afterwards, or if it is viable to get an airline/commercial job after gaining 200-250 hours and a 'frozen' ATPL.
According to numerous flight schools I've spoken to, they say "go straight for a job!"
Something just doesn't add up here
