Dear Dream, I am a Doctor.
My next door neighbor used to fly a Piper Aztec for a medical research company in the early 1970s.
He was offered a job as BAC 1-11 first officer with Court Line out of Luton.
He did the job for about 18 months, until they went bust.
He was well and truly sick and tired of it at that point.
So he went back to his true passion, which was medical research.
He said “If he ever misses it, he’ll sit in a dark closet with a 15 watt light bulb all night”
No job is a ‘dream job’.
A dream is just that, - a nighttime fantasy.
And we all know what trouble that can lead to, if we live them out.
Dear JamesPEM
I’m going to assume you are British?
You use the term ‘airline cadet’, which apart from Jet Blue, isn’t used much over there.
The way my daughter is going to do it is.
CTI professional flight training in Millington Tennessee. (Not Ft Lauderdale Florida).
You get 200 hours of DA20 for private, Cherokee Arrow for Commercial, and DA42 for I/R - Multi for $50,000.
Housing is $500 a month.
Then ATPL writtens from home with BGS.
Then any DA42 school like FTA at Shoreham or Diamond in Sweden.
It’s not the cheapest way, but currently I think it is the best for us.
I’m planning on it costing me £70,000 in all.
If your American, then just go spend the 50 Grand and get a job across the river at West Memphis, Arkansas with McNeeley Air Charter on Shorts 330’s. They fly baby chickens from Mexico to Canada. Phew! It stinks, but it’s a great starter job.
Dear Heimdal.
Being Danish/German leads to an obvious first choice of Mersek (Star Air).
You would fly Cargo Boeing 767s from Koln.
I do not know what experience level they would require.
But you won’t get anywhere by not asking and getting to know the company and it’s people.
As a way to get there from where you are.
It, like most things comes down to money.
What I would recommend you do is ‘hour build’ to 150+ hours in the United States.
An American instrument rating would be time we’ll spent.
Then pass the 14 exams thru on-line schooling.
Then go to FTE Jerez for their ‘flight deck plus’ program for experienced PPL holders if you didn’t get the US I/R.
If you get a US Comm/Inst/Multi you can do a conversion at Fly in Spain also at Jerez.
Good luck.
Dear lee1321
Take me to the sky.
What I would recommend you do is go to the United States.
All you need is a US PPL and 150+ hours.
You don’t need a fancy school.
There are thousands of airports, and nearly everyone has an aircraft for rent and an instructor.
Then do your EASA ATPL written exams.
Followed by a course at any number of fine schools.
You mentioned Scandinavia and Ireland.
Diamond in Sweden is very good, as is Atlantic in Ireland.
Forget all the nonsense of MPLs, and schools with airline affiliation.
You know if you have what it takes and the determination to make it happen.
You do not want to spend your life in the Middle East.