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Old 17th Dec 2013, 07:52
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Genghis the Engineer
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That's an impressive CV - a lot of the question is what do you want to do with it?

If it's airline senior management, then getting sidetracked by a flying job won't necessarily do you any favours. You have a CV that is certainly suitable to that without.

If you are fascinated by flying, then the obvious question is - how much flying have you actually done. Even if you are one of those lucky individuals who can afford to do integrated from family money, in my opinion (and yes, I've said this quite a few times on PPrune) you still don't know:-

- If you have an aptitude for flying?
- If you enjoy flying?

(You clearly have study skills, so there's no point in asking that question).

In my opinion what you should do first is a PPL. IIRC, that's not really possible in Dubai, but it's no big deal to go and do a PPL somewhere with good flying weather and a healthy flying culture - say an FAA PPL somewhere like Arizona or California.

Before you do any of the above, get a class 1 initial medical done, so that you know also whether you can pass that, since it is a show stopper if you can't.


When you have the PPL and class 1, you'll know the answer to all three of the important questions: aptitude / enjoyment / medical - and then is the time to ask yourself about integrated again.

Incidentally the pilot qualification can be very useful in an aviation manager even if you're not flying for a living, so I'd not discount it for that also - but studying flying is totally different to studying anything else, and also if you don't enjoy flying, there really is no point.

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