£120k
£120k : That's on the low side for zero to hero wings pilot scheme and includes basic cost of living whilst under training.
If you include loan interest repayments at 8%.........
As said on a wannabee forum I know of 5 A320 rated pilots who are unemployed ranging from just base training to 500h on type. One of whom was top of a CTC Wings programme only to be failed o his line check for..... lack of condfidence! How can they expect huge confidence when the guy only had a few flying hours from the scheme? More likely politics involved.
Just be careful what you sign!
If you are patient and try to do a flying in small doses rather than an integrated bank debt scheme you will get there. All the best!
As for instructing being difficult - yes pay starts low but once you teach CPL/IR it's much better than Flexi deal and if you make the grade Contracted Military B1 QFIs are on mid forties basic pay.
Last edited by angelorange; 2nd Feb 2012 at 17:23.