Sorry to ask the question - where do I begin?
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Mark, everyone here seems to have offered you lots of options to choose from. I cannot see one single post suggesting you first find out whether you are cut out to be a pilot ! I strongly recommend you go and do the aptitude tests with Gapan www.gapan.org or EPST www.epst.org before making any rash decisions. Get it wrong now and you'll have the rest of your life to think about it !
Good luck to you sir.
Good luck to you sir.
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Absolutely not. It really is sound advice from Mark Davies to be assessed by one of the organisations he lists. At the end of the day, you don't have to take their advice but the assessment process pretty much covers 90% of the bell curve these days... if they say you'll make it, chances are you will, and vice versa. No guarantees of course.
Commercial flying is vastly different from private flying, and I'm not talking about the size of the aircraft... many commercial pilots earn their wage flying Senecas, or smaller. You cannot just write a cheque and expect a license; this, I'm sure you already know.
What no-one else has mentioned is that you really should head down to Gatwick and get yourself a Class 1 medical before you do *anything*. Without that, all the aptitude tests in the world will come to naught.
Best of luck (as they say in the Republic everytime you're cleared to land !).
P.S. Be prepared to hand back the keys to your posh car, 'cos you are not going to be able to afford it on most FO's first job salary !
Commercial flying is vastly different from private flying, and I'm not talking about the size of the aircraft... many commercial pilots earn their wage flying Senecas, or smaller. You cannot just write a cheque and expect a license; this, I'm sure you already know.
What no-one else has mentioned is that you really should head down to Gatwick and get yourself a Class 1 medical before you do *anything*. Without that, all the aptitude tests in the world will come to naught.
Best of luck (as they say in the Republic everytime you're cleared to land !).
P.S. Be prepared to hand back the keys to your posh car, 'cos you are not going to be able to afford it on most FO's first job salary !
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I'd do the medical in Dublin, no need to go to Gatwick for it.
I've had a look at the link Mark posted and a lot of it makes sense but surely succeeding at anything is about your drive and determination to try to get to whatever goal you have given yourself? I work as a radio presenter - it's not something everyone can do but it was something I worked at to try and get better and better at and landed a job with a big station in Ireland. Obviously flying a plane is a lot more complex than talking for a living but the main incentive to do something when you want it badly is still there...?
Do they really say that everytime you get clearance?!! Paddies !
I've had a look at the link Mark posted and a lot of it makes sense but surely succeeding at anything is about your drive and determination to try to get to whatever goal you have given yourself? I work as a radio presenter - it's not something everyone can do but it was something I worked at to try and get better and better at and landed a job with a big station in Ireland. Obviously flying a plane is a lot more complex than talking for a living but the main incentive to do something when you want it badly is still there...?
Do they really say that everytime you get clearance?!! Paddies !
Last edited by Mark Noble; 22nd Jun 2005 at 03:27.
