Look this is just a PERSONAL OPINION. I coudl well be wrong. But, if it were me just about to hand in my notice and bet the farm on a CPL/IR course next week (and I have a good friend who has just done this a fortnight ago - STRESS!!) I would stop.
I really would. And therefore, if anyone asks me directly, thats what I will tell them. Take from that what you will.
Initially I would wait 3 months to see how the fog of war clears. Inthat 3 months you can still probably do something constructive like add you your savings and study some manuals or checklists.
If things look OK by Christmas then go for it then. You've only lost 3 months of a 30odd year career probably.
What I worry about is a triple whammy:
1) Sudden drop in passenger numbers as a direct result of the WTC attack. Both leisure and business as economic uncertainty hovers.
2) The failure of a UK airline as we enter a hugely unstable period and the tradtional Autumn time when these things tend to happen most frequently. One airline failure usually supplies the demand for pilots for the best part of a year.
3) 850 odd Ansett pilots with the right to live in the UK might hove over the horizon as Oz and the Asian markets remain stagnant which would have the same effect as 2)
All three could conspire to give us 1991 all over again.
Hope not.
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