Prob a good idea to have a long chat with some of the civvies in hangar 6 as well.
Some of them are completing licences during their transition phase to real civvie life, and would be able to give you a few pointers as to what they have had to do, and what paths they wished they followed with regards to licences and jobs.
They might help with the class 1 course attendance dilemma too. It's only 5 months now, and just a year's return of service afterwards. :-I