Cheers Gofly, great links there, appreciated

Wrong forum Dave, this is “General” Aviation (well, not any more 🙂 )

There was an incident yes, my mate is a fire fighter at Heathrow and he sent me a pic, basically the main wheels were allowed to taxi onto the grass area and it became bogged in, I’ll ask him if I can post the pic (if I still have it)

Yes, unbelievable weather, well, mustn’t grumble I guess, enjoy it whilst it lasts, the nights are drawing in already, soon it will be -5 deg haha

My dad says could be Gatwick or Stansted

Can you get 2 London airports any further away from each other? hardly both of these to be honest

not even someone of your age Lance? :p

This is the biggest thing soft, if you want to justify the expenditure with the end salary then it probably is not worth it, at least in the first few years of employment anyway, because age is not on our side, the likelyhood of walking straight onto a jet is pretty slim but not impossible, personally I would be more than happy with a command on a Dash-8 Q400 for FlyBe, the bigger question comes when someone offers you a right hand seat on a 737 or 320 for alot more money. Personally I am in the position to be able to spend the money on flight training and not worry too much if I don’t make it or end up flying Cessna caravans around Africa for a few years, the problem for me will come if I do not get employment, because when the money I have aside dries up I will have to stop flying because I am losing my job at the end of the year, of course unless I start instructing which will have to be a must, the bottom line is, you have to ask yourself how much you really want to fly for a living, and if you really want to do it that badly then the expenditure should not be a limiting factor, but on the other hand you must be in a position to be able to afford for it all to go wrong. If you are careful you can get all the training done for about £40k modular, this will include a few stints to the States for hr building etc, or even your PPL first.
As far as your house goes, sometimes there are ways & means of staying where you are, at least for the first year or two whilst gaining experience & making yourself more marketable for a right hand seat on a jet, personally I would even go to the lengths of living in a caravan if I felt that was necessary, again, everything boils down to how much you want to do it, and how much support you get from the loved ones, at the moment I am in a position where I will do “whatever it takes” to realise my goal, but then my other ½ is behind me 200%, which is ½ the battle.

Anyway, again god luck soft, keep us updated

Rgds

Dean

However, I would like to take issue with the 14000 Euros for the type rating on the 737. I’m sure you can FIND a place prepared to give you a rating for that kind of money, but what is the training like? Would you really know the first thing about flying the beast? This is one of the areas where it does not pay to go for the cheap option. Go for a good, quality training. It will cost you money, but will save you a lot of troble later.

I concur totally galdri, quality is the way to go, but I think with this organisation there are hidden costs, I think the training is a very good standard, one of the hidden costs are that when you come to fly the thing they charge you 7,000 euros for the 6 touch & go’s you have to do, amongst other things, what you really want is a no nonsense approach, and go to an organsation that does exactly what it says on the tin