If you are certain you want to be a pilot for a living and are going to demonstrate that by paying £60000 + for your training then YES a degree is completely and utterly pointless. It is anyway, unless you want to be an engineer or a doctor etc. I know that when I decided to pay all of my money for training ACTUALLY becoming an airline pilot was the ONLY option. Forget the degree. If you want to get life skills before hand, join the military.
Of course university is not a waste of time, it matures you and teaches you priceless new skills.
No, you sound like the Labour government......and it's once
YOU'RE fully trained not your. I am not trying to be an ar*ehole but that is not acceptable.