Modular Training? - Chances for future employment?
 

I'm a PPL with 110 hours (and climbing). Undergoing night, IMC training and have the ATPL theory exams in March 03.

The modular training route is a long haul for us in full time (non-aviation) work.

Any news on the aviation industry opening up further for new pilots who have taken the modular route? and what is the usual experience level that will be required?

Like all self-funded speculative training, there is a risk that you will not find employment at the end of it. How large that risk is can be impossible to quantify, as it depends on so many things. Not least among them are your determination to succeed and your persistence in following your ambitions.

The state of the employment market is another factor, as you suggest. If you were to begin your modular training now, it would be unlikely that you would be available for employment until mid-2004 (I appreciate for you it will be slightly earlier). That's along way away and, as a cursory read of today's newspaper headlines will show, a lot can happen in that time to affect that, or any other, market. For instance, extended conflict in the Gulf would seriously affect an industry still recovering from 9/11, and may mean that recovery in the employment prospects of wannabes is delayed until 2006 or later. But it might not happen, and if you'd decided not to train on that basis, you'd be kicking yourself in two years' time.

Life is full of 'what ifs'. No-one has a reliable crystal ball. Either do the training now and work your arse off to get a job when you graduate, or forget it and spend your money on something else.

It's your call - and you have to take responsibility for it!

Good luck.

Determination to succeed and persistence in following ambitions is built into the passion I feel every time my wheels leave the ground.

I will continue...

Thank you for the support!

Debt free??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Sorry, but I don't quite follow what you mean.