This thread is remarkably interesting due to the incredible honesty displayed.
I hope everyone here makes it eventually - nobody would wish indebtedness and lack of employment on anyone.
PPRuNe is an excellent antidote to the marketing bull of flight training schools (and Ryanair), and this long history of sensible financial and training advice (with some posters' prescient warnings) must be spread as far and wide as possible.
There is truth in the CAA's statistics, which have a wide disparity between licence issue and employment figures.
The cardinal rules of flight training have to be:
- Have a backup plan;
- Don't get into extraordinary debt;
- Treat FTO marketing with extreme scepticism; and
- Make sure you have proven, strong aptitude when self-selecting.