Thanks again EVERYONE for the replies, I have read and taken all on board.
Mini, as for doing it myself here, the difficult thing is I am out in Malaysia, where the average wage is peanuts, and training is going to cost me roughly £278 per hour.
To give you an idea, someone working at Mcdonalds here would be on around £0.50 an hour. If I worked in IT (what I did at uni) I'd probably be lucky to get much more than £4,000 a year at my level
Thats not saying if my parents wont loan me the cash I am going to give up tho. I am going to either arrange a flight for them, or at the very least get one of the instructors to speak with them to answer any questions.
I may have gotten somewhere today, when I promised that if I did go down the RW route and was fortunate enough to ever have the choice of what type of jobs I did one day, that I would stay away from what they deemed as most dangerous, ie EMS, Coastguard, Mountain Rescue etc.
Hope they start to see things a little differently soon
