Have you investigated what's the job situation for pilots in Sweden? A friend of mine is a pilot, graduated roughly five years ago. There just aren't jobs for pilots, he worked some two years in a shitty-paying assembly job in a local factory and started university studies two years ago. Yearly he has to pay 2000 € or something to have his license up to date.John wrote:Went on a 1 hour try-out lesson in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk SP today. I didn't get to start, land or communicate with the tower but other than that I was pretty much free to do whatever. We did some pretty big hang-time manouvers and one stall into a dive. Have to admit stomach didn't like that. Maybe I'm not acrobat flying material but that's not what I want anywayJohn wrote:I've tried to think of what I want to do with my life, what I want to work with in the future and the rest of my career. The past year my thoughts has been more focused on one job that previously seemed unreachable, a commercial pilot. I've always been fascinated by aviation and started reading about different flight schools. Unfortunately, yesterday I went to an eye doctor, the laser treatment kind, and he said he wouldn't recommend me doing a laser surgery due to too thin cornea. That was a real disappointment :/ That is also where saving the money comes in. The medical examination for a private pilot license (PPL) isn't as strict so although I was saving for a possible ATPL (Airline Transport Pilot License) / CPL (Commercial Pilot License) I might still be able to at least get a PPL, which of course is cheaper too. Flying is my dream.
Will do new examination at eye doctors later this fall. Last time I had contacts up until 5 mins before examination compared to the 3-days-only-glasses prior recommendation (which I heard about afterwards)
Other than that, still working my ass off and hardcoring PS3 games when at home. Still wishing I could travel more.
In the pilot studies there were 20 students with him in the same year course. He says two of them have got job, both flying in Asia with monthly salary of about 1000 €.
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I myself am working full-time in a workshop factory that manufactures pipes and pressure vessels. I'm also writing my master's thesis there, I think it's about halfway finished.