Hello everyone!
After having spent a good 2 days reading through the entirety of this thread, I have found a lot of great information. It's great to see such a sharing of knowledge and advice!
A little bit of context... I'm 21, and I'm halfway through a business degree. I have approximately 100 hours of flight experience and I would say I am somewhere between GFPT and PPL. I've always had a passion for aviation, and I've been airborne since I was 14 (which meant some interesting driving lessons involving both pedals!)
My YOU session and got a full career option result with 3 year validity, and I have the Pilot Specific Testing next Monday. So far as reading gauges, spatial awareness, or hand-eye is concerned, I feel relatively prepared, and I am doing some extra practice *cough* video games
*cough*. One thing I'm not fully sure of is the mathematical component, but I am going over my mental flight arithmetic as much as possible.
In any case, I am hoping that next Monday goes well, because I am actually feeling more anticipation for this, than the assessment session! I'd rather have the chance to "sell" myself to actual people than to a computer program! If I'm successful, I'm hoping to go through ADFA. With the "Jump Up" program, I've heard I could potentially get credits from my current studies for their equivalent courses... Alternately, DEO would also be quite appealing, and I have both listed.
One big concern I have though is that I am short sighted, and have glasses (fully corrected). Will this impact on my application?
Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice!
Thanks,
Robert