Any small percentage training fee saving is swallowed whole by a single IR renewal. There is nothing, NOTHING more pathetic, soul destroying and sad as a guy covered in rust, with a dusty CPL in his shirt pocket and a cobweb ridden log book desperately trying to keep his financial head above water whilst the industry totally ignores him.
Don't go there.
The advice is simple and it is clear. If you must train then do so slowly, via modular, keeping debt as low as possible and leave the IR and the ATPL exams as late as possible. Train cheap, borrow little, take your time. That's where the smart money's at.
Back in the 'golden age for wannabeism' as I described it at the time in 2006 the advice was to get your backside into a large FTO and be sat on a jet flightdeck a year later and never mind the cost outlay - look at the career opportunity. Times have changed and so has the advice.
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