reply from airline
HI Guys,
You all are encouraging and that for me keeps me motivated. I am 90% of the way to my CPL and have just applied for a small loan to get me the rest of the way.
I also got a phone call today from the regional airline i mentioned in my first post and they told me that they don't usually reply this quickly to emails as they recieve almost 800 a day but they felt that they wanted to reply to me by phone. Basically they told me that they don't discriminate on age so that's a good thing, but that was for their ab-initio cadet scheme. I'm not sure how a direct entry pilot would go. They invited me to submit my application for the cadetship scheme where i would have to do the whole 150 hour training scheme ( I already have 190) and fork out another $40000 (they pay the other half i think). It's a 32 week course, full food and accomodation supplied. I'm thinking of just finishing my CPL as i am currently doing, then do my ME/IR and ATPL and possibly a JAA conversion ( i am dual Aussie/British citizen). I have also thought about just going out at the end of all this and getting a TR on a 737NG or A320/19 and seeing what happens. Expensive what if's though...
Good luck to everyone here.
Marty