I'm sorry Luke, but I couldn't possibly comment.
Sally it is possible to do a complete ATPL course for £35,000 if you are very lucky. If you have a suitable school close to home, if you pass everything first time, if you go distance learning and modular, if you can go stateside initially and if you live like a monk during the process. I know as I have seen people do it - just.
For the younger Wannabe I suggest getting in the ATC and doing well - it got me my first couple of hundred hours gratis, but even a lot less if free flying = money.
At one time (when I couldn't afford it) I disliked the CTC scheme as it then worked. Now with a little more insight I can see the merit of the scheme. There is a gulf between your Senecca IRT and base training in your 737. The CTC is seems to me provides a bridge for this gulf which is compelling to the jet airlines and yet which is not outlandishly expensive for the Wanabee. We all hate training providers because they are so expensive, we are all so insignificant to them and their results can be hugely variable. Yet I see little reason to deplore what the likes of CTC are trying to achieve.
Even though it does cost yet more money
It does well to bear in mind that a CAP509 course in 1996 cost £56,000. Compare to most Integrated courses nowadays and factor in inflation and average earnings - you end up finding that such full courses are now cheaper than they were.
Personally I think type ratings are too big a gamble unless you have an 'In' to a particular operator. A lessor gamble is something akin to the CTC option. Or using the type rating money to fund you into being cabin crew with a particular airline, suffer a minimum wage job in an Ops dept somewhere, or indeed pay for a flying instructor rating next Spring.
One has to of course remember that the old IR renewal is coming and simply funding that might have a higher claim on ones final reserve of cash.
Whatever, its a rock and a hard place. Good luck,
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