I've decided on a flight school
10 Mar 2026If you’ve been reading my previous posts, you’ll know I recently visited Aeros in Gloucester, and was quite sold on the place. Well after much thought and some further reading/research, I’m pretty confident this is the route that i’m going to be taking to get my ATPL.
It fits in with my life much better than any of the integrated schools do, as quitting my job for full time flight training with no guarantee of a job at the end of it is hugely risky.
With the modular route, I will be able to work part time, enabling me to continue earning throughout, meaning that I’ll likely come out of the other end, still with some savings intact, I will not have had to borrow any more against the house, and most importantly I also will still have my current job to be able to return to full time, while job hunting. Although there are numerous airlines hiring modular students at the moment, so hopefully that will not take too long.
Overall it seems like a financially pretty sound option, the only risk really is how quickly I’d get onto and through an airline selection at the end of training.
So, I have now taken the first proper step towards this career change, and spent some money to book in my Class 1 Medical, which while expensive is an essential step, as I need to be able to be able to obtain one of those to be able to even consider this as a career. Pilot Careers Live (which I’ve already got tickets for) is the day after.
So, my current plan is
- Go and get the medical,
- Go to pilot careers live (again) for the low-down on what’s going on in the aviation world
- (given current events at the moment, I’d be surprised if there isn’t some impact on the strong recruitment drive that I felt was there last time)
Assuming nothing has drastically changed, there’s no big announcements, and there are no problems getting my medical certificate, I’ll then contact both work and Aeros about getting started ASAP
Very exciting!