What To Do?

[clunk1001]

There is another road...

Work 3 days a week in your regular job, study/fly in the other 4. Although it may take a little longer it gives you the best of both worlds.

Assuming you don’t have £70,000 burning a hole in your pocket to pay for the integrated route you'll need some reasonable cash flow. Also, when you've finished the MCC you may have to wait a long time for your first flying job (you only have to read the posts on pprune to see that 12-24 months is not unusual). So if you need to go back to regular (well paid) employment to pay the rent (and that loan for the IR ) while you wait for your first flying job you'll no doubt be asked "So Mr Bombs Away, are you just going to leave our company when someone offers you a flying job?".

The trick with this option is getting part time. Under UK employment law, an employer has to demonstrate that there is no way your role can be part time if you officially request flexible working (this law applies to everyone now - not just mothers returning from MAT leave, which is where it all originated from). It worked for me: I now work 3 days , 3-4 days study/flying, on track to finish next year, and with the regular cash coming in I’ll have little debt at the end, and a stable job to keep me going while I wait for the first flying job. (I would however love to jack it all in and train full time but I'm too chicken ).

Good luck either way.

btw if you do have 70k you shouldn’t even be reading this! - you should be writing your resignation letter with a golden pen and then applying to OAT with aforementioned golden pen (or getting your butler to do it ).