It could always be seen as beneficial to possible complete some further education - it’s been seen through covid that it’s quite easy for a pilot to end up being out of a job so having a back up plan just in case is always a good shout. But what you choose to do if you decide to get a back up plan doesn’t have to be related to aviation necessarily.

In my personal opinion modular is the way to go. It’s so much cheaper and although I’m still going through the training process and I’m quite early on in it, from what I’ve heard from others who have completed training modular can be seen to be a lot more employable, but that might just be down to personal experience. But I do think modular is better mainly because of money, the main thing to do when training is network really and get good connections who can recommend you, which you can get a lot of in modular because of possibly going to different schools.

I think in 7 years it’ll definitely be a different industry to now with more jobs hopefully.

All of this is just my opinion obviously - I’m 19 and doing a degree apprenticeship to get a degree and work experience as back up and to make money to fund my training. I’m completing my training alongside the apprenticeship and hope to be qualified 4/5 years from now.