Part 66 Training

[Souls1135]

Sorry if this is in the wrong thread.
I am currently doing my Part 66 Training on turbines and hopefully going to do the modular course to gain my piston engine rating as well afterwards.
My situation at the moment is a bit sticky to say the least. I am just wondering if anyone knew of any grants or financial aid which would be applicable to help me.
I am 20 years old in the UK I have 2 and a half years experience working on GA aircraft operating under someone else license in a Part M approved Workshop. Any information would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
Sam

[banditb6]

I know it doesn't answer the question but can you not just self study and do the exams, rather than the vast expense of a Modular course?

If you have 2 and half years on GA you only need another 6 months to apply for the licence, how many modules have you done?

[Capot]

If you are a UK citizen, at your age I think you should be eligible for a funded course at a College that offers a Part 147-approved course.

You may find yourself borrowing to pay your accommodation etc, and it's a 2-year course, more or less. At the end you would have a Basic Training Certificate and then need to gain 3 years work experience, for a B1 licence. Your experience so far would count towards that.

But, most of the long, 2-year, "fully-approved" Part 66 Basic Training courses run by Colleges with a Part 147 approval are a rip-off. This is one of the two routes to get a licence.

If you do your modules one by one, with self-study (augmented perhaps by short intensive revision courses) you need 5 years work experience which you can get while doing the self-study to get the Modules.

As bandit says, your best bet by far is to carry on working (gaining work experience) and earning while you self-study for the Modules. By the time you get the last one you will probably have done all the work experience you need, and can apply for a licence.

There are good short intensive courses around. Do the short, intensive revision with the Part 147-approved training organisation that also runs the exam you are working for. I don't need to spell out why that's a good idea.

Resource do this, and there are others.....Google and Aviation Job Search (Courses) are good places to start research.

[Souls1135]

For the license I am trying to get doing a modular course whilst working would be vastly more expensive as it is a minimum of £600 per module. Another reason I did the approved course was because I couldn't find a job working on turbine engines without being licensed. So I would have to do 5 years experience rather than 2 on the approved course.
In relation to the colleges and getting a loan. A student loan isn't applicable for this course as it is governed by EASA which according to the UK government isn't a accepted exam board. So as far as the student loan company and such like are concerned it isn't a accepted course. They only accept courses that give you HNC or HND or something similar at the end of it.