Paul Savage,
I think if you re-read my post you'll see that I said you will not get the loan without a degree UNLESS (i've put it in big letters for you this time) you have some form of security. If you now re-read your original post you'll see that you didn't mention anything about having security.
I wish you the best of luck but it seems to me you have a lot of growing up to do. Having read some of the other posts you've replied to, it seems you haven't heeded any of the advice given to you at all on this subject.
Have you any idea whatsoever that you are suited to a career as a commercial pilot? Have you taken the GAPAN tests? Have you set foot in an aircraft for a lesson? More importantly, have you even taken the Class 1 medical? I presume you must have at least done some of this or you wouldn't be so very naiive and arrogant as to put your father in the position of securing a £45,000 loan for this.
Reading this thread
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...threadid=71091 you say your father has put his business on the line to secure this loan. I'm beginning to hope that you are taking the p**s and trying to wind us up and are not being serious. If you are being serious, then maybe you had better let your dad read some of the advice on this website.
The bare facts are these. The job market at the minute is not good. There are a lot of far more qualified people/pilots than you out there looking for commercial flying work and when it comes to it, they will get it over you. The chances of a 19 year old with 250hrs walking into a jet F/O position are miniscule. This means that if you can find a job before you have to start paying this loan back, it is not going to be the £30,000 a year job that you seem to think it will be.
I'm sorry if you don't like what i've written but you have a lot to learn.
I'm 23 and despite wanting to fly since the age of 7 and more recently 6 years of research and pursuing that career I am still learning. Listen to what you are told, and take it on board. At 18 everyone thinks they know it all, just like I did, but 5 years later i know I did not, and that I still don't.
The one thing we do share is the passion to fly for a living. Don't give up on that dream but for god's sake do some more serious thinking about how you are going to achieve it.
Bow5