I heard that not even their Danish brothers don't want to join them.

Ed, join the military and be a RW pilot. Plenty of money (relatively which will help pay for IR) cheap place to live and free flying.

I'm biased but I'd recommend it to anyone. The reason you can;t find a job is that you have 'paper' qualifications but little real world experience. Offshore (and quite a lot of onshore) work can be very demanding and if a potential employer can filter you out on experience grounds they will. If you can't beat them, join them.

The RAF is basically a flying club anyway and you;ll get paid at least £30k a year plus to be a pilot even under training (check the pay scales out online).

Lots of down sides of course but if you take along term view and find out where a lot of the people in the industry come from, ex mil is a pretty popular route. Think about flying as a career and not as the next job. using the mil route gives you access to a flying career which in the current environment you might not get.

Just my 10c worth.

Not necessarily these days - just talk to an Apache pilot and see how much flying they do.

Phil

Well we aren't attacking anyone right now so very little Attack training needed.

SH fleet are still busy enough and always will be. RN grey Lynx/ Wildcat (whatever it's called Royal Navy style) will always deploy and get offshore time. If you fail the Pilot's Courses when already a qualified pilot, that would be pretty bad... ;)

Still better than incurring tons of debt and not getting paid for it(IMHO) although as I noted, it's not without draw backs of course.

Ed don't give up yet, you are super young, you will get there but sadly you can't see it yet. We have all been there trust me. Fate will sort you out in 5 minutes. Don't forget Air Ambulances are going 2 crew for all that night flying.

Keep applying for everything and anything you think you would like to do, sometimes you have to use certain jobs as stepping stones.

I used offshore as a stepping stone to get the holly (sp) grail of the industry but it did take me 6-13 years.

What about Tuna spotting?

Anyway chin up.:ok:

Not all air ambulances are going two crew for NVIS.

tuna boat operators now want over 500 hours for there ops, over in Australia were I am , there are shed loads of people with 1000 hours piston no turbine all begging the ops in Guam for exposure in the H500

We also have a load of European pilots under 30 just got there easa licence and now converting to casa about to start the road trip trying to scratch for hours, it's a bad time for everyone out there at the moment

I think Ed will be ok, if he can afford a 60 grand IR at 22 he should be fine