Okay guys family meeting over and since you have all provided some valuable information,advice and experience only fair to share the outcome with you:
We have decided Jake will go to University on Monday to take up his offered place on an Airport and airline management degree course. We will help him get his PPl over the next year and he will join the university air squadron. He will research and apply for cadet schemes as he sees fit and also he has the possibility to change Uni courses in year 2 to a more flying based one. He will finish this course at 21 and i think will be better prepared, more mature and perhaps with a few more options to consider. Our offer of finance stands should he come out the other side and still be committed to flying as a career.
This is just the gist of our meeting as we have been discussing this all day. It has been a full family decision but Jake is happy with the above and is now getting his head back into Uni mode.
thanks for all the advice.
Brian Short