The advantage of #MODULAR (pay as you go) over #INTEGRATED (full time) flight training?

The advantage of #MODULAR (pay as you go) over #INTEGRATED (full time) flight training?

For me, it was that I could afford this route when I wasn’t allowed access to a loan as my family wasn’t considered rich enough.

I could do the flight time hour building at my own pace and around my two, sometimes three simultaneous jobs.

I met and flew with some of the best flying instructors - the late Concord flight engineer John Allan, the late brilliant Alan Scott, absolutely loved flying with the late Dale Reynolds and I had an absolute blast with “unretired” Piers Smerdon!

I got to experience different clubs in all weathers and conditions, and flew some really cool aircraft - supercub, jodel, bulldog, firefly and an extra300 amongst others!

I got an awesome aircraft hire rate as a member of staff thanks to David Ripley allowing me the opportunity to work at Durham Tees Flight Training.

I had many opportunities to grow in a range of competencies, have many different experiences that helped me improve my future job applications and interviews, and picked up a bunch of crazy and funny stories along the way.

Ultimately though my training was significantly cheaper than any integrated scheme, with a lot more life and professional experience in a range of aviation environments (ops, crewing, etc) and it has got me to a similar place in time as someone from the integrated route.