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Old 8th Nov 2012, 22:24
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would your skills be valuable to somewhere outside the cockpit?
Having a PPL is a great talking point in job interviews and one I have used myself, but anything beyond this? Probably not.

Apart from the fact that nobody outside of aviation will have a clue what it is, a fATPL gives you a very specialised skill-set which has limited application outside the cockpit. What skills does it actually give you? An ability to fly a multi-engine aircraft, in IMC for reward. And that's about it.

The biggest problem you would probably face is convicing your potential employer you weren't going to rush off to be a pilot at the first opportunity. If as you say you were prevented from being a pilot for some other reason, wouldn't they then be worried that they were "second best" to what you really wanted to do?

On the other hand I can very well see how you could build and demonstrate skills relevant to being a good pilot in non-flying jobs, for example: attention to detail; working under pressure; ability to work in a small team. I struggle to see how it could work the other way round, unfortunately.

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