Bestycame
2nd Apr 2008, 19:20
G’day all!
Let me first introduce myself,
My name is Olivier, I’m 20 years old and I’m coming from Belgium. I have been in Australia for a gap year between September 2006 and July 2007. I was working in a school in Launceston, Tasmania. it has been for me a wonderful experience, and, since I came back, my only dream is to go back to Australia to work there.
Initially, I went to Australia to learn English because, as I wanted to become a pilot, I would have to study all my courses in that Language. And guess what, it is what I’m doing now. I’m currently doing my ATPL in a Belgian school. And now, in less than a year, I will be graduated from that school, and it will be time for me to look for a job as an Airline Pilot. But there is one thing I’m sure of; I don’t want to work in Belgium.
So, here is my dream, I wish to go back to Australia, to work there as an airline pilot. I have been looking on the web for different possibilities, and I don’t see if it is possible to do that in my case. I will have the “classical” European Frozen ATPL: around 250 flying hours with a MEP-IR-CPL, a theoretical ATPL, and a MCC. (So I guess, not a lot of experience), and, could my case get any worse, I of course have no permanent Australian citizenship. But something there is something that I have: I am motivated: I want to fly; I want to be in Australia.
So here is where I need a little bit of advice: how does aviation works on Australia? I guess I cannot enter in one of the “Majors”, but I’m sure there is a lot of “little jobs” I could do on the side. Do you now any “Australian Student Pilots” forum? Where I can get more information about how the training works in Australia and where I will be at a better place to ask all the questions I have? Also, what do you think of this project? Is there anyway it might succeed?
As I said, I am motivated, and it is not a thing I want to do since 3 days, I have that project since I came back of Australia, and every day my dreams grows bigger.
Thank a lot to you all,
Olivier
Let me first introduce myself,
My name is Olivier, I’m 20 years old and I’m coming from Belgium. I have been in Australia for a gap year between September 2006 and July 2007. I was working in a school in Launceston, Tasmania. it has been for me a wonderful experience, and, since I came back, my only dream is to go back to Australia to work there.
Initially, I went to Australia to learn English because, as I wanted to become a pilot, I would have to study all my courses in that Language. And guess what, it is what I’m doing now. I’m currently doing my ATPL in a Belgian school. And now, in less than a year, I will be graduated from that school, and it will be time for me to look for a job as an Airline Pilot. But there is one thing I’m sure of; I don’t want to work in Belgium.
So, here is my dream, I wish to go back to Australia, to work there as an airline pilot. I have been looking on the web for different possibilities, and I don’t see if it is possible to do that in my case. I will have the “classical” European Frozen ATPL: around 250 flying hours with a MEP-IR-CPL, a theoretical ATPL, and a MCC. (So I guess, not a lot of experience), and, could my case get any worse, I of course have no permanent Australian citizenship. But something there is something that I have: I am motivated: I want to fly; I want to be in Australia.
So here is where I need a little bit of advice: how does aviation works on Australia? I guess I cannot enter in one of the “Majors”, but I’m sure there is a lot of “little jobs” I could do on the side. Do you now any “Australian Student Pilots” forum? Where I can get more information about how the training works in Australia and where I will be at a better place to ask all the questions I have? Also, what do you think of this project? Is there anyway it might succeed?
As I said, I am motivated, and it is not a thing I want to do since 3 days, I have that project since I came back of Australia, and every day my dreams grows bigger.
Thank a lot to you all,
Olivier