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Dean johnston and redsnail are absolutely right. I made the decision to go for it at 40 and really made the wrong call. Primarily because i found it really hard and and have spent around 90k sterling in the process. This figure however does include the fact that i havent worked at all for 15 months and had to pay my mortgage during this time and basically lived my life throughout my training as if i was earning my previous decent salary. Obviously it probably wont cost you that much but beware everything and anything that a flight school tells you ,as unless your very talented for which i am not , then you will overrun on every course that they sell you with exception to maybe the PPL.
I was really looking forward to the filight training after the atpls , but in hindsight i began detesting the flying until i hired a brand new cessna 172 with garmin 1000 for my hour building and started to like it again. What i should have done is buy the cessna in the first place for $230000 which is not far from the cost of training and just fly for fun! Should of kept my decent job and flown my friends all over the place.
Ironically , even if i wanted the same type of job back i wouldnt get it , as in my industry they would percieve me as some kind of lunatic to have spent the last year or so blowing all my money on a mid life crisis!!
But at the end of the day its your choice and cash and noone can make that decision for you.
Good luck with whatever you decide.
jess