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Old 12th Jul 2011, 22:36
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Really, the military option is not really viable in the current market, David Cameron has just decomissioned all of the UK's Aircraft Carriers, sold off all the harriers with them, closed various RAF bases and retired the Nimrod's. Do you guys actually read newspapers? The resulting fall out is that a lot of trainee pilots have been "let go" midway through training.

Read a few of the threads on here and you will find that the bank of mum and dad is the only real option for ab initio training and P2F schemes. Did you fall asleep and wake up back in the 90's? The chances of an airline in the UK paying for your training in this day in age is quite frankly laughable and if you are serious about making the airlines you need to wipe the green from behind your ears and toughen up a bit
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