28th February 2000.Where will you be this time next year?
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This time next year I'll hopefully be CPL/IR Frz ATPL and skint. It'll all be worth it though when I get that first job.
Yup I can see it now, putting on my smart uniform and hat, climbing into my cramped but comfortable seat, putting on my headset and uttering those magical words......
"Welcome to the drive-thru, would you like fries and a shake with that sir.......??"
Yup I can see it now, putting on my smart uniform and hat, climbing into my cramped but comfortable seat, putting on my headset and uttering those magical words......
"Welcome to the drive-thru, would you like fries and a shake with that sir.......??"
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**Unusual Attitude**
I was reading the thread - minding my own business, when all of a sudden I read your little gem -
I genuinely laughed out loud, split my coffee, fell off the swivel chair,and nearly wet myself (not a good thing for a wannabe pilot).
ever thought of comedy for a living?
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I was reading the thread - minding my own business, when all of a sudden I read your little gem -
I genuinely laughed out loud, split my coffee, fell off the swivel chair,and nearly wet myself (not a good thing for a wannabe pilot).
ever thought of comedy for a living?
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Yeah well Borg32, depending on my ATPL results I may have to take up comedy.
I could always get a job with the JAA, I reckon you'd need a right sense of humour to come up with some of their latest schemes !
Not that I've got a chip or anything
Regards
UA
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Something will always spoil your fun.....
Beer has the Hangover, Sex has the STD, GA has the CAA !
I could always get a job with the JAA, I reckon you'd need a right sense of humour to come up with some of their latest schemes !
Not that I've got a chip or anything
Regards
UA
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Something will always spoil your fun.....
Beer has the Hangover, Sex has the STD, GA has the CAA !
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Ok, my turn!
In a years time I will be finishing my ATPL groundschool and about to take my final stint of exams.... I will have built some more hours to get me over the 100hr mark and have converted my FAA PPL to a JAA PPL, and maybe have done my night rating....but doubt I will have been able to fit in a IMC by then.
Of course right now this all seems like a dream as I am struggling to sell my house which is going to pay for all this!!!
Its very hard not to get dispondent!
Anyway, I will work bloody hard for it...and I WILL get there!!!!
We all will!
Gosh I am feeling determind today...perhaps its cos its nearly the weekend.
In a years time I will be finishing my ATPL groundschool and about to take my final stint of exams.... I will have built some more hours to get me over the 100hr mark and have converted my FAA PPL to a JAA PPL, and maybe have done my night rating....but doubt I will have been able to fit in a IMC by then.
Of course right now this all seems like a dream as I am struggling to sell my house which is going to pay for all this!!!
Its very hard not to get dispondent!
Anyway, I will work bloody hard for it...and I WILL get there!!!!
We all will!
Gosh I am feeling determind today...perhaps its cos its nearly the weekend.
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My last post on this thread just 6 weeks ago failed, after the RAF said No.
Next prediction .... Either at Dartmouth with the Navy, or on an integrated ATPL course.
Dartmouth depends on the Navy accepting me.
ATPL course depends on Navy not accepting me, and CAA giving me a class 1 med.
lost in life ickle
edited a million times to try and make the silly face with ??? above appear, before giving up, screaming, hitting the monitor repeatably, and generally cursing this stupid computer!!!
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Next prediction .... Either at Dartmouth with the Navy, or on an integrated ATPL course.
Dartmouth depends on the Navy accepting me.
ATPL course depends on Navy not accepting me, and CAA giving me a class 1 med.
lost in life ickle
edited a million times to try and make the silly face with ??? above appear, before giving up, screaming, hitting the monitor repeatably, and generally cursing this stupid computer!!!
[This message has been edited by ickle black box (edited 20 April 2001).]
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Well, this time next year, I *hope* I will have made *some*, in fact *any* headway towards becoming a commercial pilot. Right now, I have zero hours and just enough cash to pay for a PPL. I'm 37, so my time is running out rapidly. My first step is to see if I can get through a Class 1 medical.
However - not coming from a wealthy family, and getting just 17k / year (uk), not owning a house... the biggest problem will not be the medical or the job market, just down to money - pure & simple. I have no idea where to start to try to raise the cash I need, and despite wanting this more than anything in the world (and wanting it since I was 8), I have to be realistic and think my chances are slimmer than Mr Slim of Slimsville.
I cannot afford, timewise, to consider anything other than an all-in zero to ATPL course due to my age, and ironically it is the one thing I cannot see me ever affording, financially.
My dreams of being a pilot have thrown me from optimistic hope to black depression and back again for 29 years and it takes its toll.
If you could convert enthusiasm into cash, I'd have enough to pay for everyone here to get trained
If only I could get a loan for the training, I would gladly pay any interest rate and work for peanuts (yes, you get like this after nearly 3 decades of dreaming !)
Good luck to everyone who's trying....
(..and if by some small miracle I do manage to someday get myself in the sharp end of a 737, I will buy everyone here a drink ! ...and you can hold me to that.)
p.s. - if, however, I don't make it... will you all buy *me* a drink
However - not coming from a wealthy family, and getting just 17k / year (uk), not owning a house... the biggest problem will not be the medical or the job market, just down to money - pure & simple. I have no idea where to start to try to raise the cash I need, and despite wanting this more than anything in the world (and wanting it since I was 8), I have to be realistic and think my chances are slimmer than Mr Slim of Slimsville.
I cannot afford, timewise, to consider anything other than an all-in zero to ATPL course due to my age, and ironically it is the one thing I cannot see me ever affording, financially.
My dreams of being a pilot have thrown me from optimistic hope to black depression and back again for 29 years and it takes its toll.
If you could convert enthusiasm into cash, I'd have enough to pay for everyone here to get trained
If only I could get a loan for the training, I would gladly pay any interest rate and work for peanuts (yes, you get like this after nearly 3 decades of dreaming !)
Good luck to everyone who's trying....
(..and if by some small miracle I do manage to someday get myself in the sharp end of a 737, I will buy everyone here a drink ! ...and you can hold me to that.)
p.s. - if, however, I don't make it... will you all buy *me* a drink
with Charlie 130 and Brian.... Good Luck everyone.
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In February this year, I was at zero hours with little or no knowledge of the flying world and aeroplanes....today I am more than halfway through ready for my solo and waiting to hear back if i can be given a Medical 1...hopfully in February 2002 (God willing) I will have a PPL, IMC and Night ratings and approx 150 and maybe if I'm lucky enough i would have startded my groundschool........
Be positive all the time and have confidence and luck will always be with you.
Good luck folks
DWHLO
Be positive all the time and have confidence and luck will always be with you.
Good luck folks
DWHLO
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This time next year I will have completed my PPSC course, got my hours - started CPL/IR and have enough cash in the bank to see me through a couple of years instructing!!!
PFO
ps. I will stop attending sponsorship aptitude tests and redirect the funds saved to something more useful!
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ps. I will stop attending sponsorship aptitude tests and redirect the funds saved to something more useful!
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Then I was a PPL slowly building hours whilst working in Sweden, now I'm a CPL/IR frozen ATPL, forlornly but resolutely looking for a flying job.
But I am, as usual, warming up for the GatBash.
But I am, as usual, warming up for the GatBash.
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I will have graduated university with at least a 2:1 BEng Hons Aerospace Engineering Technology. I'll then be either:
i) Figuring out a method to afford to pay for flight training.
ii) Going through the process of applying to all those sponsorship schemes which WILL restart soon.
iii) Be working all the hours God sends to earn some money to go travelling for 6 months, forgetting all the troubles and worries that come with wanting to be a pilot.
By 28th June 2004 I'll be 12 months into my JAA ATPL course.
By 28th June 2005 I'll be in the right hand seat flying A319/320/321s for a major London based airline and heading towards my full ATPL.
Now that is what I call forward thinking!! I never fail and am fully determined to make this happen.
i) Figuring out a method to afford to pay for flight training.
ii) Going through the process of applying to all those sponsorship schemes which WILL restart soon.
iii) Be working all the hours God sends to earn some money to go travelling for 6 months, forgetting all the troubles and worries that come with wanting to be a pilot.
By 28th June 2004 I'll be 12 months into my JAA ATPL course.
By 28th June 2005 I'll be in the right hand seat flying A319/320/321s for a major London based airline and heading towards my full ATPL.
Now that is what I call forward thinking!! I never fail and am fully determined to make this happen.
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hmmmm............
so as Brian Glasgow´s (what a ****in stupid name) official spokesman I feel I should bring you all upto speed..........
May 2001, BA said no for the 3rd time.... FB 3 years in a row....... woulda though i would have managed to get it by then eh??
June 2001, Tunny begs borrows and steals 50k...............
July 2001, Tunny starts at BAE systems jerez.
Dec 2001, Tunny gets first 6 exams without losing too much hair....
June 2002, Tunny prepares to sit 2nd set of jar exams and pt2 at jerez, scared? you betcha........ swop anyone? not in this lifetime..........
Seriously lucky enough to have parents that support me through this bloody carry on and humble enough to realise i love em dearly
hopefully this time next year i shall be able to post saying im in the RHS of anything that involves flying,, and hopefully being able to make the most of what has the potential to be the best career going.........................
so as Brian Glasgow´s (what a ****in stupid name) official spokesman I feel I should bring you all upto speed..........
May 2001, BA said no for the 3rd time.... FB 3 years in a row....... woulda though i would have managed to get it by then eh??
June 2001, Tunny begs borrows and steals 50k...............
July 2001, Tunny starts at BAE systems jerez.
Dec 2001, Tunny gets first 6 exams without losing too much hair....
June 2002, Tunny prepares to sit 2nd set of jar exams and pt2 at jerez, scared? you betcha........ swop anyone? not in this lifetime..........
Seriously lucky enough to have parents that support me through this bloody carry on and humble enough to realise i love em dearly
hopefully this time next year i shall be able to post saying im in the RHS of anything that involves flying,, and hopefully being able to make the most of what has the potential to be the best career going.........................
