Well im 25 school educated, no college or university background (not a good start i know) and only a few times up in a cessner. As far as employment goes i have 5 years security for the ministry of defence and im a licenced doorman, not sure if that is important or not but what would i need to have?
Ah, ok, that makes it easier - writes of all the military routes - unless you became a RN pilot...
PPL Sponsorship schemes are generally aimed in the bracket of 16-25 year olds (the
Air League Scholarhips for example), and most nowadays provide about half the training for an
NPPL, or a third for a full PPL, ie between 12 and 20 hrs. Full 45hr scholarships are around still, but obviously competition is very fierce.
Completely sponsored airline schemes again are really a thing of the past. Several used to require a PPL as a pre-requisite to starting the course, however, with the new
CTC training scheme things are beginning to open up a bit - they prefer ab-initios. With this scheme you pay back your training costs once you are working for an airline.
Cabair also do a similar scheme where your training costs are subsidised to an extent by
flybe. The 2007 for Cabair closes for applications a week on Friday btw...
You've missed
Oxford Air Training/Excel Airways cut off by about 45 minutes...
So really you need to keep an eye out for the airlines. Nip into WHSmiths weekly and look in the back pages of
Flight International too - that's where sponsorship programmes first appear. Keep you eyes open in the front of the monthly
Pilot,
Flyer and
Today's Pilot magazines - that's generally where you see flying scholarships advertised in the general press.
