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Old 29th Feb 2008, 14:29
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hingey
 
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If you have a PPL and a driving license you can apply to Air Atlantique (RVL), Highland Airways and Atlantic Airlines. With all schemes, you are pot up in a house and work for the company in a variety of tasks (anything from ops to cleaning, driving and decorating), normally for 12- 18 months during which time you are studying for your written exams, before you start flight training. Then they give you a job on their respective fleets, all funded by the company.

With Highland I think you end up on a 406 or a Jetstream, RVL put you on one of their many twins (404, 406, Islander etc) but if you want to fly an airliner you're probably better off with Airlines who put you on the ATP or Electra. All schemes are hard work, but you don't have to keep signing away 10's of thousands of pounds to an FTO every other week.

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