Having gotten into aviation on the wrong side of age 25 I will share my experience with you.
There is most definitely age discrimination in the industry. In fact it's rife. No one will ever admit it though. The preference for guys willing to pay for everything and work for peanuts has been adopted by many companies big and small.
Beware of the "my mate knows a guy who is a captain now and he started when he was like 45!!" Things like this are super rare and again anyone coming on her telling you otherwise doesn't know what they are talking about.
From the class I trained with a couple are on wide bodies, a couple are on turbo props and some dropped out all together. I'm in GA limbo treading water. The guys on jets were all foreign students. They all went back to their home countries when they finished. None of us locals ever cracked a jet job.
Unless you are prepared to drop 70k pounds down the toilet without getting upset, go ahead and get a CPL.
Last edited by whentostop; 6th Sep 2014 at 03:47.