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Well now begorrah.
Me eyes are all bleary after reading every post on all 14 pages... sad or wha ??
Anyway, I'm no more enlightened really than before I started as only one poster did a 'before' and 'after' sort of thing, and it wasn't a happy ending either !
I'm 45 next month. I have only about 140h TT PPL.
Recently been toying with the idea of progressing to ATPL standard and all that goes with it... still toying !
Perhaps I shall just take pleasure in funding the flying dream of one offspring instead, like so many people here wished for.
That way I can get the enjoyment without the work and will be financing a longer career hopefully... and I can look forward to 'payback' day when they are in LHS of a big heavy !
Me eyes are all bleary after reading every post on all 14 pages... sad or wha ??
Anyway, I'm no more enlightened really than before I started as only one poster did a 'before' and 'after' sort of thing, and it wasn't a happy ending either !
I'm 45 next month. I have only about 140h TT PPL.
Recently been toying with the idea of progressing to ATPL standard and all that goes with it... still toying !
Perhaps I shall just take pleasure in funding the flying dream of one offspring instead, like so many people here wished for.
That way I can get the enjoyment without the work and will be financing a longer career hopefully... and I can look forward to 'payback' day when they are in LHS of a big heavy !
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I've had a PPL/IMC for many years but am now doing an ME/IR at the bright young age of 53! Is it difficult with so much silver matter up top? Yes, but one of the amazing things about the flying business is that you are continually surprising yourself by what you can achieve if your motivation is strong enough.
So, a message to all you 30-something and 40- something youngsters: Go for it! Nothing is worse than having regrets at having missed an oppurtunity. Of course, I wish I had done all this 20 or more years ago.
Good luck to all of you, and beware of the doubters who will try and pull your wings off.
So, a message to all you 30-something and 40- something youngsters: Go for it! Nothing is worse than having regrets at having missed an oppurtunity. Of course, I wish I had done all this 20 or more years ago.
Good luck to all of you, and beware of the doubters who will try and pull your wings off.
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24, Class 1, 33 hours PA38, £36000 in bank, BSc Electrical & Electronic Engineering, 7 years this year as an avionic technician for BA (747-400/777-200 fleet) including sponosored traineeship, waiting for July 2005 and i will have my £60000 ready for Cabair! 
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Cabair
I would not recommend Cabair, if you had 60k, I would advise doing it modular. Why? because you get to have experiences at different schools, and it would cost much less. Even if one were to do it the cheapest they could possibly do it, which would come to about 30 to 35k. You could still do the AQC with CTC, and if you pass that, (costs 7000) it would probably have the same value if not more, than an Oxford Ab-Initio course!
But this is just my opinion. And what I plan on doing. As i find this route best for myself. Your circumstances may be different from mine.
I also believe that by doing it modularly you have shown more of an interest. Before, i was thinking about doing an ab-initio, simply because i couldn't be arsed finding out what the modular course consisted of and which parts i could do here and which i could do by saving money going to the States. But as I learned more, I realised, that for about 10 hours reading about modules and schools, I could save myself 25k. And reach the exact same goal, if not better, since you're moving around and adapting to different environments to train in.
I'm not assuming you don't know anything. It's just that you must be absolutely sure about spending 60k, as to me, it now sounds scarily expensive, but then so is 35k. but about half the risk.
You should also try and not plan for what you will do in summer 2005, as you never know, by the way things are going, most airline operators may require type ratings, and this practice might regretfully be considered the norm. So much can change, so i would rather keep my money for an essential type-rating or whatever i need to pay for a Job, which sounds absurd, having to pay for your employer for your job, but chances of changing their minds is futile. Unless there is like a mass protest, i mean pilots simultaneously from all over going on strike, would seem extreme, and its the LAST thing airlines want, delayed flights. But at least justice may be done! I hope it will never come to that.
Anyway good luck, I hope you and everyone else embarking on this journey ends up where we all want to be.
But this is just my opinion. And what I plan on doing. As i find this route best for myself. Your circumstances may be different from mine.
I also believe that by doing it modularly you have shown more of an interest. Before, i was thinking about doing an ab-initio, simply because i couldn't be arsed finding out what the modular course consisted of and which parts i could do here and which i could do by saving money going to the States. But as I learned more, I realised, that for about 10 hours reading about modules and schools, I could save myself 25k. And reach the exact same goal, if not better, since you're moving around and adapting to different environments to train in.
I'm not assuming you don't know anything. It's just that you must be absolutely sure about spending 60k, as to me, it now sounds scarily expensive, but then so is 35k. but about half the risk.
You should also try and not plan for what you will do in summer 2005, as you never know, by the way things are going, most airline operators may require type ratings, and this practice might regretfully be considered the norm. So much can change, so i would rather keep my money for an essential type-rating or whatever i need to pay for a Job, which sounds absurd, having to pay for your employer for your job, but chances of changing their minds is futile. Unless there is like a mass protest, i mean pilots simultaneously from all over going on strike, would seem extreme, and its the LAST thing airlines want, delayed flights. But at least justice may be done! I hope it will never come to that.
Anyway good luck, I hope you and everyone else embarking on this journey ends up where we all want to be.
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23, completing PPL in PA 38, ATPL groundschool in June, hour building, CPL, IR etc.. within 3 yrs.
Plus working like mad to finance flying, and to keep debts at bay (for the moment hehe)!
Plus working like mad to finance flying, and to keep debts at bay (for the moment hehe)!
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Twenty-one, ppl and night rating, 50 hours (mostly in the states).
Working my ass off for finals for my aerospace engineering degree and will pretty much do anything and go anywhere to make a career in flying; money being the main barrier as for most.
Someday, somehow!!!!!!
Working my ass off for finals for my aerospace engineering degree and will pretty much do anything and go anywhere to make a career in flying; money being the main barrier as for most.
Someday, somehow!!!!!!
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27, looking at that career change....! In the military at the mo, have done a fair bit of flying but mainly gliders....forced landings everytiime!
PPL this summer, then starting modular route (part time)...looking to get an FI rating, and hour build to CPL/IR etc....hopefully, by the time I'm due out of the mob in 10 yrs (or sooner if the redundancies kick in), I'll have enough hours to get a regional prop job...which is nice...!
Good luck all!
Monkey
PPL this summer, then starting modular route (part time)...looking to get an FI rating, and hour build to CPL/IR etc....hopefully, by the time I'm due out of the mob in 10 yrs (or sooner if the redundancies kick in), I'll have enough hours to get a regional prop job...which is nice...!
Good luck all!
Monkey
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22 with some 40.? hours clocked on Warriors/Archers and TomaterrorHawks- consistancy for you! (also some ATC vigi time too)
Need to do some GH for the skills test, and a few more solo NAVex etc.
Ideally id love anyjob in the air, ****** the poor pay, used to it anyhow! Seasonal work as an FI would suit me up to the air!
Obviously id like to see my experiences of allowing people trying to kill me everyday bloom to fruition by getting that job with a major carrier and seeing my days out as a training captain on the pride of the fleet, whatever ever it may be by then!
No lady, no house, no money, two saabs, two dogs and loaaaads of ambition.
Good luck to all, every second counts-Make it so!
Need to do some GH for the skills test, and a few more solo NAVex etc.
Ideally id love anyjob in the air, ****** the poor pay, used to it anyhow! Seasonal work as an FI would suit me up to the air!
Obviously id like to see my experiences of allowing people trying to kill me everyday bloom to fruition by getting that job with a major carrier and seeing my days out as a training captain on the pride of the fleet, whatever ever it may be by then!
No lady, no house, no money, two saabs, two dogs and loaaaads of ambition.
Good luck to all, every second counts-Make it so!
