ETPS Flight Test Diploma for fixed wing pilots.

[Tightflester]

Cart & Horse

This course is specifically aimed at military
and civil pilots and engineers engaged in
aircraft development, production and
acceptance programmes for which they
are required to plan, conduct and report

on flight test within a cleared envelope

I don't know how much the course would cost, but if you are not being sponsored by a lucrative company to attend, I'd suggest you start buying lottery tickets by the bagful and keep your fingers crossed.

I remember seeing the invoice for one of my fastjet survival courses at Boscombe, £5000 and that was a 1 week course 10 years ago.
For the FWFTD course I’d be surprised if there were much change from £100,000 when you factor in accommodation, living expenses etc.

Even if successful on the course, I’m not sure where you may get a TP job. There aren’t many about, but there are many very good experimental test pilots looking for work…. I was buying one of them beer last week as he sobbed over the possibility of having to stay in the armed forces.

Good luck.

p.s. Don't use 2, 12, 16, 33, 37 & 41 (on the lottery), that's a losing set of numbers if ever I saw one (I hate sharing good things, with the exception of advice on fantasy TP jobs).