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Old 7th Apr 2013, 13:54
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Most people who go into aviation leave school with 5 A-C's including Maths/Science/English which is really the only requirement if any once you have the licences. Your qualifications would more than meet the required standard by just about any training school I would think.

The bad part is the 'scholarship's' which you speak of don't really exist, what do exist are tagged schemes run by the likes of easy via CTC which involve a lot of money been put up by the student (upwards of 100K - usually on parents houses) and then being put on a part time contract once you finish for a few years. The BA scheme involves similar costs but is very competitive due to what is on offer and the fact its BA, if you could find yourself on that you would count yourself very very lucky, for most people its not a serious option because its that hard to get on the scheme (read the thread).

Then there is the modular route which you can complete at your own pace and don't usually have to pay upfront, however as you are not connected as such to any airlines when you finish, that route usually involves buying a type rating of some sort either with Ryanair or with a type rating company (again no guarantees that route will get you a job) which pumps the cost up to where your getting close to 70/80K.

In short it depends how much money you are prepared to bank with no guarantees of a job once you finish training depending on which route you take, I would not part with savings in the present climate unless you were loaded or had something to put a loan on such as a house, it doesn't take long to find out that aviation is a money game, without it you don't get far these days.
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