Hi everybody,
I'm currently 17 and considering uni courses. I've been awarded a RAF 6th form / uni scholarship and would idealy like to eventually (*eventually*
) love to get through to ETPS, after I'm sure many many years of squadron flying, and especially since my work experience (FJTS, QinetiQ) I have the ambition to get into FJ testing.
I really want to do Aeronautical Engineering / Aerosystems Engineering, or possibly Avionics. Bearing this in mind, and the fact that I want to learn as much as possible in the three or four years available between the end of school and IOT, (although I'm sure this is a question you must me asked a million times), is there / are there any degrees that you would specifically reccommend for someone wishing to eventually enter the wonderful world of Test Flying?
And also, as an aside, can you reccommend any good books to read? I've worked my way through both volumes of Chris Carpenter's "
Flightwise"(although the second one, Stability and Control, was a bit ... interesting)" and Vaughn Williams' "
Flight Testing Homebuilt Aircraft" (the wonders of amazon.co.uk), but are there any other good books out there I could / should be reading?
- Stuart
Edited to make the italics work