The apprenticeship is the way to go if you want to know how to fix aircraft...... Of all the people I have met, those who did an apprenticeship usually had a better attitude and far better hand skills thanm those who went to Uni. The lads who went to Uni didnt seem to have the ability to understand that they were back at the bottom of the pile.
Experience counts for everything in this game, and you get that on an apprenticeship