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Suppose you have a degree,maybe even two and I have only GCSE's but 1000hrs, 800 of which are through instructing.
Who will be preffered then?
Qualifications are very important if you want to be sponsored but not if you are self sponsored.Dont get me wrong, to have a degree would be great, but the amount it costs to goto Uni' nowadays is not worth it. The money would be better spent on an ATPL.
After all an ATPL is a qualification isnt it?
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When i was looking around my intended FTO only 2 people on the course had degrees.=2/30. .Try to get to know somebody like GH says.When i was learning to fly i made it perfectly clear that i wanted to Instruct.Word soon got round to the CFI about this.Consequently on my skills test the CFI in question said. ."I think you would make a good instructor"
He also didnt have a degree!
I wasnt even talking to him about it he just came out with these words!.So you can guess where im going when i get my shiny new FI(r).
Not doing the A-Levels might be a good thing as long as you did the right thing since.. .I for example didnt bother with my A-Levels.I left school and did an apprenticeship in IT and got industry based qualifications.. .Now just 2 months after my 22 b'day i am about to begin Modular training full time.I also have a self funded PPL with 100 hrs!
. .Make your own decisions, but as everyone says, the wrong decision may well be regretable whennyou are older. I already regret not doing my ATPL when i was 18!
[ 23 January 2002: Message edited by: Rowley ]</p>