Plan B for younger contractors?

[TestMangler]

Made me curious so I looked it up:


Becoming an Airline Pilot | Pilot Training | Latest Pilot Jobs |

Seems quite well paid to me ...

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Well paid compared to a dustman or someone in McDonalds. A tulipe contract project manager can easily top line over £100K a year without having to do anything mentally challenging.

[MrMarkyMark]

not bad for a flying bus driver.

long haul they get a few days off between flights , and get to pile drive the trolly dollies in the designated hotels.

i did airport work for 7 years.

[unemployed]

you too then ?

must be where you picked the taste up for Ryanair.

[GJABS]

Supply and demand is the problem - millions of people want to be pilots, but not millions of people want to work in IT.
If you want to fly, get a job in IT, and fly a small plane in your spare time like I do.

[sasguru]

Supply and demand is the problem - millions of people want to be pilots, but not millions of people want to work in IT.
If you want to fly, get a job in IT, and fly a small plane in your spare time like I do.

How much does it cost to:

1. get a PPL nowadays and
2. How can you afford to run a plane? Do you own it outright or have a share?

[GJABS]

How much does it cost to:

1. get a PPL nowadays and
2. How can you afford to run a plane? Do you own it outright or have a share?

1. Around £8K in my case, cos I was a slow learner. It is a NPPL for microlights (3-axis microlights that are virtually the same as small planes). I learned at Blackbushe airport two years ago with these guys:
Home | Clearprop! Microlight School

2. I own a 1/5 share in the plane, which I bought for £3500 last year. I pay £35/month hangerage and insurance, and £40/hour wet to fly it (including fuel). It cruises at 85 knots (95mph) and I can take a passenger. Range of 4 hours.
Based at a farm airstrip in Hampshire.
I've been everywhere in it: Lands end, Scotland (Ben Nevis), Dover, and Deauville in France.

[sasguru]

1. Around £8K in my case, cos I was a slow learner. It is a NPPL for microlights (3-axis microlights that are virtually the same as small planes). I learned at Blackbushe airport two years ago with these guys:
Home | Clearprop! Microlight School

2. I own a 1/5 share in the plane, which I bought for £3500 last year. I pay £35/month hangerage and insurance, and £40/hour wet to fly it (including fuel). It cruises at 85 knots (95mph) and I can take a passenger. Range of 4 hours.
Based at a farm airstrip in Hampshire.
I've been everywhere in it: Lands end, Scotland (Ben Nevis), Dover, and Deauville in France.

Thanks for the response - looks reasonably affordable.
How do you feel flying in bad weather? Are you even allowed to? Do you kak your pants?:

[No2politics]

Not very scalable - therefore I'm out.

[Gumbo Robot]

1. Around £8K in my case, cos I was a slow learner. It is a NPPL for microlights (3-axis microlights that are virtually the same as small planes). I learned at Blackbushe airport two years ago with these guys:
Home | Clearprop! Microlight School

2. I own a 1/5 share in the plane, which I bought for £3500 last year. I pay £35/month hangerage and insurance, and £40/hour wet to fly it (including fuel). It cruises at 85 knots (95mph) and I can take a passenger. Range of 4 hours.
Based at a farm airstrip in Hampshire.
I've been everywhere in it: Lands end, Scotland (Ben Nevis), Dover, and Deauville in France.

Don't you need something on top of the bog standard ppl to cross the sea?

[d000hg]

A pilot I know is earning well - after the first few years where training is VERY expensive - but only by being willing to relocate to UAE.