PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - To old and settled ?
View Single Post
Old 31st Oct 2002, 14:19
  #3 (permalink)  
piperindian
 
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 72
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
if you like to fly, why dont you buy a share in an airplane.
a JAA fATPL costs 50k at least. With a share, at least you have a resale value.
at your age, nobody sponsors. at the moment nobody sponsors anyone.

there are some kind of sport singles/aerobatic airplanes with which you can in fact have more fun than airbus/boeing truck drivers will ever experience (even tough apparently some boeing guys made slow rolls with 757s, however its not in any airline SOPs for good reason)

If i had to it over again, i would buy a share in an airplane (sport single) and not spend one penny on that JAA fATPL. ITS A SCAM. IT HAS BEEN SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

there are some nice sport singles on the market, even pressurized ones. get an ifr rating and good ifr training however, in uk weather its essential.
piperindian is offline