The Stooge
Another interesting twist to this is I believe the profession of Airline pilot is on the skills list for emigration (it was last time I checked). The son of a friend of the family from the UK wants to be a pilot and I looked into it for him.
You can get a student visa to learn which also allows you to work for 25 hours a week. I took him to Jandakot airport and one school even suggested they could find him work cleaning planes and the like. Jandakot even has chalet accommodation at the airport but I don’t know what they charge.
The beauty of this is I checked with CASA and as they issue the qualification and are also the assessing body for immigration. There is no way they can knock someone back for lack of qualifications if they do this.
Admittedly if you went back to the UK the conversion costs for your licence are pretty horrendous but I believe it may still work out marginally cheaper. But once you’ve seen Perth or even quite a lot of places in Aus why would you want to go back?