cost effective? or location?

[Bionic_kid]

ok.. with that plan it sounds realistic but you have to consider 4 things:

1: You wont walk into a flying job immediately. How are you going to afford to live once you get here plus find the time to visit and meet all these prospective employers. The industry's slow at the moment and i know of a lot of new pilots who are working at coles waiting for things to pick up.

2: you can only work at one company for 6 months on that working holiday visa so likelyhood you'll never get out of hanger rat status

3: to extend the visa to 2 years you have to work on a farm picking fruit or doing something like that.. It may be your ticket into the mustering industry or cherry drying in Tazzy but you can take 3 months out of your hunt to do that.

4: conversion: if you have to do ALL the exams again and badly fail a few can you afford the month to wait to resit it? (have a look at onlineaviationtheory.com and i'm currently using this for all my revision. It is made by Ron Newman @ PHS and includes a lot of questions that are in both the FAA and CASA exams)

I'm seriously not trying to put you off coz i LOVE flying (having just done low level last week) and am half way thru both my hours and exams but it's a LOT of cash and i would hate to see someone else be in my shoes and be looking at spending all that money for something that may not be useful.

[Schweizerlovin]

Im with skypig on that one

[creightz1051]

looks like I'm going FAA route then, I can't afford to do the training and not get the visa's or opertunity to work. The CAA in the UK make everything complicated and expensive, and the rest of the world doesn't want a low hour forigen pilot.

[Bionic_kid]

best of luck to you but dont write australia off. have another look when you've got your hours up and are a catch to some of the employers over here.

[skypig]

looks like I'm going FAA route then, I can't afford to do the training and not get the visa's or opertunity to work. The CAA in the UK make everything complicated and expensive, and the rest of the world doesn't want a low hour forigen pilot.

Or, according to "Word":

Looks like I'm going FAA route then, I can't afford to do the training and not get the visas or opportunity to work. The CAA in the UK makes everything complicated and expensive, and the rest of the world doesn't want a low hour foreign pilot.

It might be worth using spell-check when trying to convince the rest of the English speaking world that they do want a low hour foreign pilot.

Sky “Without spell-check I’d appear even dumber” Pig