anyone have a pilot in the family?

[EnidBlyton]

Anyone have a child who is training or married to a pilot.
do they go via RAF
I was watching Bigjet TV, seeing aircraft landing, or not, at Heathrow yesterday, it was Fascinating.
Much respect

I have a family member who is a pilot. He didn’t go through the RAF, he trained at Oxford Aviation School. He gets paid a fortune but the hours and shifts are horrendous. He lives a very unhealthy lifestyle.

I work in an aviation company that one section is pilot recruitment.
I would say that training through the RAF (or other country military) is dropping off - you need to train on a specific type of aircraft so pilots coming from military would have to train on type after leaving.
A lot of airlines do direct entry cadetships now. Often the successful candidates have done some flight school training prior to getting the job.
Yeah, money is good but unless you get one of the big national carriers eg BA/AL etc shifts and conditions are hard. The big airlines is the job to get. More secure, usually more set rosters etc once you gain captaincy.
Some pilots like to work abroad to get quick captain upgrades with airlines struggling to get qualified candidates (2 weeks on, 1 off where the airline flies them to the nearest location to their home that is on their route) and those guys make mad money, have a wife at home, girlfriend in location etc.

BIL is a pilot, now flies the Saudi Royal Family and lives in Middle East. He’s a complete knob and his training left MIL in debt as he's never paid her back despite earning a shed load tax free.
Pilots in the forces are amazing however.

BIL is just a selfish prick.

Two pilots here. A son and a son in law. We paid for our sons training and he was then taken on by an airline.

Son in law went down the same route but it was older she being who were working who funded him. It was as a common way of doing things here. People educate one child who then educated another and they then educate another.

Siblings. Not she being.

Also, we were military and only about 3 of our fighter pilot/military pilot friends went on to become civilian pilots.

Reading all this with interest, as my 12-year-old is absolutely 100% dead set on becoming a pilot at the moment. He's already in the Air Cadets and is hoping to get at least some flight training down that route, although he ultimately wants to fly big cargo jets.

what made your son decide to become a pilot nanamilly?

My cousin is a pilot for BA
He went into the RAF straight out of uni did his time flying Hercules got as far as he could go and still fly left the RAF and walked straight into a captains job with BA
Loved every minute of it and would recommend it to anyone