Various Uni courses – Coventry off the top of my head (and on the plus side you’d get to tinker with a Harrier)

Ive been to coventry 🙂 the harrier is far from being anything but a lump of metal that has seen a hard life 🙁 just has a simulator in the front cockpit, the rear cockpit is stripped out. ideally I need something practical, though im not unacademic, I really need more than an hour every other week of spanner time. as well as something fulltime 🙂

David – Good plan, I like the sound of that, ill look up the BAe apprenticships

ZX – Got marshalls detail page up too! 🙂

Cheers Dave,

The thing is, ive tried university twice now. I studied Chemistry for a year at plymouth university and passed my first year but the death of my best friend bought life and how short it can be into perspective. I then thought that I should be doing what i love doing, severly limited to which university I could attend for aeronautical engineering due to the lack of a maths A level I ended up at Coventry where I studied and again passed my first year. I chose not to continue because i find university to be a wholly lonely experience if you dont go out on the p1ss every night AND attend a course with less than 20 people on it.

I started an application for the Raf as a pilot but am unable to join because of a permanent injury sustained to my left leg from a kitesurfing incident

So now im 21 working in a bar during the week, part time teaching piano and I volunteer on the shackleton at coventry when I have a chance.

aircraft are in my blood, the smell of any aircraft is like an aphrodisiac to me. Im very mechanically minded in that i seem to know how things work, how they come apart and go back together etc.

I was half thinking about sitting a maths A level but would it be worth it since i owe for 2 years of university already?

I just want to know that ill have some future, preferably with aircraft lol

Ive got info on marshalls BAe and virgin atlantic at the moment, my worry is, am i too old for these apprenticeships? will all the people on them be 16? lol

and if i got onto virgin, i could come and help you guys out at gatwick too 😉 thanks for all the advice guys 🙂 much appreciated, ill tell you how it all goes!