Is Flying your second carrer? What was your first?
Is Flying your second carrer? What was your first?
I was/am a marine engineer working on tankers. Had the misfortune to go on a helicopter pleasure flight in ST Lucia in 1993 whilst working on a cruise ship and got bitten by helicopter bug! Since then? PPL(H),PPL(A), Instructor for Heli's FI(H)(R), and now halfway through the commercials. It's never too late. Just how much do you want it?
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10 years ATC experience, tower and radar. Got the PPL and CPL the hard way using the GI Bill at a USAF aero club in 1978 and haven't looked back.
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A librarian for seven years.
31-year-old student pilot.
32-year-old commercial pilot.
On track to have my ATPL by my 35th birthday.
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31-year-old student pilot.
32-year-old commercial pilot.
On track to have my ATPL by my 35th birthday.
[ 15 August 2001: Message edited by: Waffle ]
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1.Brick Cleaner
2.Diamond Driller (I did the holes for the crash barrier posts between Rothersthorpe and Watford Gap on the M1)
3.Restaurant Manager
4.Trainee Medical Technical Officer
5.Medical Technical Officer (Nuclear Medicine)
6.University
7.Pathologist
8.Head of Molecular Pathology (large pharmaceutical company)
Always wanted to fly. didn't get into the RAF. Every job has been crap in some way or other. I've always known what I wanted to do but it's taken till now (36) to realise that I must go for it or be eternally unhappy.
Like most I will be severely out of pocket at the end of the road. However, if I get a job flying anything I will be a happy man..
Hope this helps
Nige
2.Diamond Driller (I did the holes for the crash barrier posts between Rothersthorpe and Watford Gap on the M1)
3.Restaurant Manager
4.Trainee Medical Technical Officer
5.Medical Technical Officer (Nuclear Medicine)
6.University
7.Pathologist
8.Head of Molecular Pathology (large pharmaceutical company)
Always wanted to fly. didn't get into the RAF. Every job has been crap in some way or other. I've always known what I wanted to do but it's taken till now (36) to realise that I must go for it or be eternally unhappy.
Like most I will be severely out of pocket at the end of the road. However, if I get a job flying anything I will be a happy man..
Hope this helps
Nige
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Thanks for the replies people, heres my brief history:-
Paper boy (cold & wet)
Trainee Aircraft Fitter (146 & ATP) @ BAE (should have stayed)
Trainee Technical draughsman (skint)
Architectural Technician (snore)
Barman (burp)!
University (burp)!
Architect (bored)!
PPL (hooked)
Integrated ATPL - start October (wish me luck)!
Keep em coming!
Paper boy (cold & wet)
Trainee Aircraft Fitter (146 & ATP) @ BAE (should have stayed)
Trainee Technical draughsman (skint)
Architectural Technician (snore)
Barman (burp)!
University (burp)!
Architect (bored)!
PPL (hooked)
Integrated ATPL - start October (wish me luck)!
Keep em coming!
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4 yrs uni £30 000
2 yrs lab tech and treating the resultant ulcer £300
Quitting your job, sneeking into the bosses office at night with champers and cigars, getting horribly pissed and bottling the bastard what he comes thru the door the next morning - Priceless
Ahh, the dreams we dream. AIB in sept and off the uncertain, if pant wettingly cool profession of getting shot at for a living
Wish me luck!
2 yrs lab tech and treating the resultant ulcer £300
Quitting your job, sneeking into the bosses office at night with champers and cigars, getting horribly pissed and bottling the bastard what he comes thru the door the next morning - Priceless
Ahh, the dreams we dream. AIB in sept and off the uncertain, if pant wettingly cool profession of getting shot at for a living
Wish me luck!
