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I couldn't advise anybody to enter serious training right now.
Do your PPL sure. Maybe start the ATPL exams via distance learning and build some hours. But that would be about it.
Things are already bad. They are going to get worse if Ryanair really do lay off Buzz flightcrew. We are going to war and the economy is very shaky.
There are thousands looking for flying jobs right now and many many of them are highly competent and ideal candidates. To pitch yourself in the pool against them is to be very very optomistic.
Sometimes the conditions are such that no matter how well you do and how good you are you stand no chance of getting a job. Those conditions are now upon us.
There could be a major airline failure in the UK in the next six months. I would not leave a job or commit to expensive time bounded training against that backdrop.
Mores the pity.
WWW
Its interesting if you keep saying the same thing long enough it will eventually happen.
Ouch that hurts.
Last weeks flight had a careers supplement about working in the Middle East, it made very interesting reading. Emirates need 1000 pilots over the next 3 years, Etihad need about 200. These pilots will come from all over the globe, some will come from established airlines here in the UK. TUI-fly, TCX, EZY and FR to name but a few. Which in turn moves the pilot pool along. A quick flick through this weeks Flight shows 12 adverts for pilots, ranging from flight instructors through to BA.
I hope you don't work for a flight school, otherwise you're gonna endure the dozens of pages long "you're biased" **** from 3 or 4 members on here. 