I don't regret doing it but recent trends in pilot T&Cs make me wonder whether I should bother to persue aviation as a long term career or fall back on my degree, find a decent paying, but boring job and fly my own plane on weekends.
Why not find a decent paying and INTERESTING job instead, they are around.
Only go into flying if:
1. Someone else is paying, military or cadetship or
2. You are well cashed up and writing off $60K if it doesn't work out isn't going to affect you.
3. You have something else to fall back on that can give you an alternative career.
Going into debt or selling your house to fund flying training isn't a viable option these days given the poor and very uncertain returns.
I managed to get lucky and now fly an airliner BUT the terms and conditions are far less than I expected when I started flying and the race is on to the bottom.
Had I not scored this job I would be PMing KRvation to find out about getting on as a train driver.
