Careers in Aviation

Darius.Tr

Hey,
Im considering of studyin Aeronautical Engineering in UL, but I'd love to find out other careers possible in avation.
What options are there?

!MAVERICK!

Do the aeronautical Engineering degree in Queens, if your decent at maths, I would love to do it, but im hopeless at maths.

Regarding the other options, theres... Air traffic controlling, (exams are this year I think)

Piloting ... (if you have 100 k in the bank account) you should consider it.

Mechanic or ground engineer ( these are the real hero's of aviation)

Flight attendant ( Bit repetitive though)

Dispatcher (A flight dispatcher is a person responsible for planning and monitoring the progress of an aircraft journey)

Air corps ( best possible career in aviation)

Baggage Hander ( Meant to be alot of craic)

Corporate Pilot ( Flying learjets for celebs or the government)

Flight Marshall ( Easy job, just sit there for there whole flight every day)

Airline and airport operations ( You might need a business/marketing/ logistics degree etc )

chubster

Air traffic control all the way!!

In Ireland, check out the IAA website: http://www.iaa.ie/

In the UK, it's NATS: http://natscareers.co.uk/

In Europe (airspace covering Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, north-west Germany) check out EUROCONTROL: http://www.eurocontrol.int/muac/public/standard_page/atco_careers_home.html


Best of luck!

highlydebased

ATC is difficult to get into. You've missed out on this year's IAA intake.

Unless you have alot of money, or want to get involved with a huge loan, then learning to fly might not be overly ideal.

To be honest, just get yourself into college in any case, then you have something to fall back on if you decide to go for the above and they dont work out- Aero Eng is not in my field of interest so I cant comment on that

Good luck

niaroh1x96

Hey guys (nd gals :P), just wondering what course(from cao etc. ) would be best to do to have a career in those crash investigations,

its something i'd love to do, my favourite programme on television is "Mayday" and I think the terrible accident in Cork today made me think about it again, that I would love to be investigating what were the causes of the plane crashing.

Im still in secondary school, so preferably I am interested in a Level 8 course that I can apply for through the CAO, so any help would be greatly appreciated:D


Thanks :~)

Delta Kilo

The majority of the air crash investigators are mostly former pilots, aircraft engineers and people who have worked in the industry for a considerable amount of time.

Its not really a career that involves doing a course and applying for a position if you know what i mean.

Darius.Tr

Ill probably try to get into DIT for aviation technology or CIT for aircraft sysems and try to do my ppl during summer if ill get any job...btw that investigation thing should be good too i could see myself doing that is it hard to get an apprenticeship in air corps as aircraft mechanic?

thisisadamh

I am looking into becoming a pilot (just thinking about it), you should look at the http://www.pilottrainingcollege.com/ they have open days that are quite informative.

Darius.Tr

There's no chance that i would get at least 100k for CPL so thats not really an option for me