Aviation Technology with Pilot Studies?

Hey, Anyone applied to Study Aviation Technology with Pilot Studies or anyone already studying it? Info would be great cheers! :cool:

Reply 1

1hundredreasons

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=275348

It's last year's thread, but I've made a few comments on it this year as well.

Reply 2

MrksmanMike

Thanks its been useful, I was chatting to Dr Gee about a place as im adding a choice Via UCAS EXTRA as ive applied for a diff course an decided it isnt what i want to do. Im interested in the Aviation side not just the flying. Never been part of a flying school or anything. Anything you think i should look into before defo deciding to go for the course? Also you get the PPL is this just the basic or do u get to do the Night Classifacation as well? Thanks :tsr2:

Reply 3

1hundredreasons

Well you pay for a total of 40 hours in advance (of flying), 5 hours are provided in the Simulator (the maximum that can be counted towards a PPL). If you have no flying experience then there is no way that you can get a Night Rating within the pre-paid 40 hours. If you want to pay a bit more to the flying school then obviously you're more than welcome to get more flying hours in.

If you're definitely interested in the DEGREE then do it, otherwise look for flight training schemes in the USA/australia/NZ or even spain. They work out at a similar price arent you arent tied in to uni for three years.

Saying that, I wouldnt recommend training in a foreign country because of the weather being TOO good - you come back to the UK and you have a lot to learn!

You might want to look into the PPL syllabus online to get a good idea of what it involves. The prepaid hours will take most students in to exercise 18 - navigation (Ex 19 is done on the sim). Often you will have to pay for a couple more hours to complete the cross country flights and the skills test. As far as the uni is concerned, you dont even have to take the test - they just want you to do the training and produce a rather lengthy report at the end of second year.

That's about all I can say anyway if you have any more questions post them on here!

Reply 4

1hundredreasons

Also, just to add if you didnt know the Night Rating is 5 hours flying, the IMC rating is 15 (I think) and is more worthwhile getting. The priveledges of the NR are a matter of debate lol - research on the internet.

Reply 5

UniFlyer

Hi, this thread needs updating for anyone dropping in. The year above mine there were nearly 75 people, then they put the grades up and the numbers appear to have fallen since. The best staff with practical aviation experience have left or are leaving from what I have heard and the course changed to be less aviation and more engineering so it does not look good if that is what attracted you in the first place.

Anyone thinking of applying now should make sure that the courses advertised are what they will actually get, and taught by people that have actual practical experience of aviation and flying, not retrained material engineers!

The flying training at CFS Cleveland flying school is very good and the instructors very helpful. Leeds staff have very little to do with the flying side. Best modules _ Aircraft Performance and Systems and Flight Procedures and Planning. Worst modules - too many to mention!LOL

Reply 6

Pink_Diamond

My flatmate this year does this course...i was guna ask him to write up under my name then i realised this thread is a year old and the op will already be studying it lol

Reply 7

ChrisGoulding

I was just wondering, in total what would the average cost to do this course... because all uni's say an additional cost but dont give a rough average?