Heyo, thanks for the feedback guys! Appreciate that so much.
@nuthin: your right, the J1 does not exist any more. Today itīs called F1, and there are only 3 schools in the us, which are allowed to issue that. (MLH, BRIS, HB)
"...Make your choice on where you can work as a new pilot or else you may have simply chosen a very expensive holiday...."
I think this is the one 1 billion dollar question!
But I know that in US/NZ/CAN it is better then in EU!
US got the benefit, that itīs the cheapest and the chance to get up to 800-1000h before you get deported, when your F1 visa runs out. (F1 able to study and work for max. 24month, means first 12 months training, second 12 months looking for work! If you find no work, the best case could be that you go home with approx. 1000h and got a huge benefit to the other guys which did the training in EU)
CAN got the disadvantage, that the costs for the training are similar to EU, which is massive expensive, and visa conditions.
NZ is a very good compromise between EU and US, and personally the more I am dealing with the land, economics, social system,... in NZ, the more my personal reference leads to the NZ direction instead of US, my only concern is, that the visa condition got not that benefit like the US F1 visa and you would get deportet back to EU after training
And a very good thing on NZ is, that you donīt hear anything in the news, compared to EU/US/aso. Itīs a nice world-quite country on the other end of the world, far away from the crazy EU/US
. And from the landscape similar to Austria with more benefits in climatic zones for flying.
To my education, I donīt know exactly if I would get a long time/permanent resistance. But after dealing 6 years world wide with small aircraft accident investigations in continous airworthiness departments and 4 years in automotive/aeospace quality and project management, I hope that this would qualify me for a working visa at least. In Austria we got special education of technical high schools, where you got the title "engineer" after gratuation and working 3 years in a special area. F.e. I am an engineer specialist in combustion engines. I know, that this title is nothing worth in the world out of Austria, which makes me extreme sad, because a bachelor or master on university is similar to the education level, but this is an Austrian problem
Nevertheless, after quiting my actual job at the end of Dec. because of notice period, at beginning of next year I will start the training and during this time, I am leveling the advantages and disadvantages between NZ/(possible frontier) and US/Mauna Loa Helicopters.
So I am happy for every feedback, I can get for feeding my options and makeing the decision clearer.
BR, Rusty