Becoming a Pilot

[flyjimbo]

I really want to become a Pilot it has always been a dream of mine but i'm worried that I may have left it too late. I'm going to be 32 this year, is worth starting now? Thank you in advance for your advice.

[froggequene]

If you want to do it, go for it
http://www.balpa.org/intranet/How-to-bec/How-t o-become-a-pilot.pdf

[amonty1144]

It's not too late, top age range for training tends to be 40 but it is expensive. Unless you have the money yourself about �40,000, a bit more if yo don't pass everything first time, it can be hard to finance, the older you get.

try googling cabair, they are a good training organisation, also look at pilot website, they have a couple of seminars each year at heathrow airport where all the training providers go.

[Cakeboy]

It will cost you a fair whack, there's very few airlines that will take you on as a cadet nowadays. Most want you to at least have a PPL, and probably more.

Some airlines will take you on and pay for your training and then you repay them via a bond system over the next 7 or so years. A couple of my friends did it this way, they trained with Thomsonfly - it cost them �60k and they had to spend a year in Spain with no pay whilst they trained. At the end of it, Thomson didn't offer them a job either, but they're both working with other airlines now.

If you really want it, go for it and good luck. You could always try to be the brains behind the operation and take up Air Traffic instead