Dear all,
I would like some advise from you all.
Currently I am 18 and holding a conditional offer at Kingston Uni for BEng in Aerospace engineering. The course is 4 years and at the end of it I will have to do yet another 1 year 'add on' course to get chartered engineer status (ie to be eligible for a job!) So 5 years in total. My A level exams are not going too well at the moment (failed math on tuesday
). The thing is I don't even want to be an engineer I want to be a pilot!
I really do not know weather to go to Uni, like everyone is telling me to, or to start to learn to fly now.
If I don't go to uni, I will have 5 more years to play with but fewer options available to me regarding careers (ie if I fail a medical or cannot be a pilot...) and maybe a lower wage.
On the other hand if I go, I will have more career options and more earning power. So what do you suggest? My leanings are towards Uni, but then there is the debt at the end of it all!
Also and more importantly, I would like to know how you guys finance your training, and find the time to do it! Sure, a PPL can be earnt 'part time' and ATPLs through distance learning but what about the CPL, MECR and IR etc, you cant just take 5-6 weaks off work every now and again! What sort of jobs do you or did you have whilst learning?
Thank you for any help.
Richard