Some advice on ATPL training
Hi,
I'm looking to draw on your experiences with doing the full time ATPL courses at one of the Air Training colleges in the UK.
Neither myself or my parents have the finances to pay the £50,000 or so to do the course, but I am so desperate to fly for a living I'll do virtually anything.
I think I'm a fairly competent switched on sort of guy and I have been gliding for 6 years (Since I was 14 years old) so I rekon I'd make the course okay. My problem is with the financial risk involved. I am prepared to take out a loan for this huge amount if I'm fairly sure I can get a job afterwards.
One of my work colleagues did the ATPL course in the states (Via parents who could afford it!) and admittedly he's not the most motivated person in the world but he hasn't had any interest in him at all.
I don't see many adverts for 'Fresh-out-of-school' pilots either which is worrying.
What I would like to hear from the wide and varied experience of this forum is whether you think jobs are out there for people after they have passed the course. I'd go to work for an airline for £15,000 a year if they promised me a contract of a few years!
Thanks for reading this far!! Positive and Negative feedback is invited and I hope to meet you someday when I eventually make it!