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Old 18th May 2010, 13:17
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whistling turtle
 
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My advice would be to just stick with it where you are now. To quit the course now and more than likely have to start all over again at square one some place else would not only cost you/your family/whoever is funding this a small fortune but it wouldn't look great down the line when it comes to interviews with potential employers.

Interviewers have a very short time to get an overall picture of you and to have dropped out of an intergrated course only to begin over in a different school's intergrated course will make you look weak and seem unable to overcome obstacles and setbacks to the interviewing panel. I know that this might be unfair but they are not likely to feel much sympathy for you because you were unhappy about not getting as much flying done as you would have liked. You will just come across as a bit precious and weak with perhaps more money than sense.

When I was doing my modular atpl ground school full time a few people in the class dropped out in some cases because they couldn't hack the material and in others because they just did not like the school itself. Regardless of the reasons it just made those people seem weak - and I know that sounds harsh but it is the truth. We were all under huge pressure and the school itself was poor but at the end of the day even though it didn't seem like it at the time it went by quickly and the hardships are forgotten soon afterwards. I honestly do think that most of the drop-outs would have made it through the course and exams if they had just had a stronger and more positive mindset.

I was chatting to one guy in my class who dropped out on facebook recently and he is still blasting away at the atpl's now via distance learning and this is a couple of years later now the poor guy.

Flight training is full of obstacles, frustrations and set-backs OP so you need to toughen yourself up now and having the ability to overcome these things is the very attribute you will need to get through your instrument rating.

Use this free time you have to chair fly, keep receipting the emergency checks untill you are sick of them, fly instruments approaches on flight sim or again by chair flying, go back seating on others flights. Do whatever you think that needs to be done but just keep your mind active and help yourself here.

Think about it for a moment - you are on an intergrated pilot training course, there are people out there who would absolutely kill to be in your position now. You have a great opportunity to better yourself so don't drop the ball.

Every school has it's own problems and even going to Oxford won't change that fact. I'm not saying these things out of criticism to you but really to help you and your future.

Best of luck.

Last edited by whistling turtle; 18th May 2010 at 16:29.
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