Very adviseable.
Better to do a decent degree, join a decent profession, then fly for fun when you want to.
Don't forget, answers you get here are biased, because there are a lot of people around that have succesfully made it into a flying career, plus others who have mostly embarked on the career path.
My advice to anyone thinking of a flying career is don't do it. If you absolutely must, then you have got to have an alternative career lined up to cater for the possibility that you never get the lucky break into a decent flying job, or you get unlucky on the hiring cycle and have to earn a crust some other way for lengthy periods, or you lose your medical.
My degree has proven to be very useful within my aviation career, let alone where I would be without the pure random elements that have luckily combined to leave me as a skipper at BA.
At the very least, if you haven't already done so, go and get a class 1 medical before you close the door on any of your options.
CPB
Last edited by Capt Pit Bull; 11th January 2003 at 20:41.