What do I do???

[no_HANDLE]

It's a ****** of a choice.

Best bet is to continue with your job so you can finance your flying. The full funding option is not the best in NZ at the moment and infact I hear that it has been coming up in airline interviews.

So stay working and pay for it yourself it will be much more rewarding when you finally get there.

Best of luck with your choice

[the wizard of auz]

Drink the money instead. your hangover will eventually go away. If you go flying you will end up bitter and twisted (yes, like me) and that lasts forever.

[Howard Hughes]

It's probably too late Wiz, a year on I reckon the money has already been pissed up against the wall! (so to speak)

Cheers, HH.

[elemenohpee]

persistance and networking
it's been said a million times
( It's not what you know, it's who you know)

good luck

[Homer_Jay]

None of the above.

Move to Australia. Let your taxes do the work. If the Govt doesn't waste money on military aviation they'll just waste it somewhere else.

If you want to fly fixed wing join the Air Force.

If you want to fly Helicopters join the Army.

What's the Navy???

[ZK-IAG]

G'day xelophab,

I'm in pretty much the same position as you. Comfy job (which I dislike). I'm leaving work for good on thursday 23rd, finishing off my PPL over january and have also enrolled in CPL and IFR ground courses. Self-funded; I don't believe in student loans!

Seeyou out there!
IAG

[steve181]

I got my C.P.L with MEIR a few months ago. I'm working full time (non aviation) for at least 6 month to pay off a good chunk of my loan, before i get back into aviation. I really should have done it the other way round.

Is it true that if you write a convincing letter to studylink they might freeze you interest for up to a year? or did i just dream that?

[Onewordanswer]

I met dat bloke but he said "A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush".

[bigfella5]

Don't be on your deathbed or in an unhappy marriage wondering "what if"........been to both.......both sucked.
The worst thing that will ever happen to you (assuming that you want to fly for a living) is rooting around in the back of the car searching for enough 5 cent pieces that will enable you to get a litre of milk for breakfast.
Things willl get better...life will become rosier...flying and a decent wage will happen if "YOU LET IT HAPPEN"

Anything else is a load of old cobblers

[Howard Hughes]

bigfella5,

I reckon you summed it up in one!!

Cheers, HH.

[Skypig]

Just another thought.....

You said you work with computers?

There is a skills shortage in IT thats getting worse with falling intakes into IT studies. I have no idea what your quals are IT wise but maybe upgrade them and do something else in IT?

Rates of pay are starting to rise again and there are credible comentators calling a real shortage in the next two / three years.

Make a quid doing that and fly on the weekends for fun

An aircond office sorting out a router that wont forward packets beats flogging about in a clapped out, undermainatined, overloaded 206 into some poxy remote NT strip in "Territory VMC" during the wet season...... Or am I just getting old

PS Just noticed the date on the first post....... Hell hes probably in QAN by now

[SoundBarrier]

Well, time has passed and I have been gone so long I lost my login details for this account.

I have, however, made my decision and things seem to be going well.

I still work in IT and am in the process of doing my commercial part time. I have decided to instruct part time, where the money is not, earn a comfortable income and still be able to fly.

I think part-time instruction will suit me well as I will still get up most days wanting to get airborne rather than thinking, "Hmm, not another bunch of touri to move between A and B."

So for the moment I am happy and still thoroughly enjoy flying.

thanks for the input guys!

[centurionII]

Mate, id go your last choice on the list. Dont go it as a career, keep it as a hobby. If i had my time over, id do this with no hesitations.

[Frickman]

As someone once said to me...

Why aim to be up the front of a corporate jet as an employee when you could aim to be sitting down the back as the owner.