Thanks redsnail for the info.very interesting. I just wanted to say as at the moment I am in ATPL training in germany
(with a loan for 35000 Euros)
I feel that I have done the right decision!!!I do not know what it will be like once I am finished, but the flying school oparates three King Air's (C-90, B-200) as vip transporters, and I talked to a few pilots and all said that allthough it was difficult working odd houres, nobody wanted to change their job.
And in the CPL/IFR course I visited I was the only "real" flying student, meaning not a having a full-time job next to flying( unless you considere school a full-time job
...)
The point I am making is that there is allways a way if you want to get there.
And when youre approaching a short field, coming over a forrest with 16ktsG20kts from the side, and you land it it kind of makes you proud...