It has been my life long dream to be a pilot in the RNZAF (yes we do still have planes). I've been through the selection process twice now, the first time I had crap marks from high school, but still passed the requirements for pilot training but missed out 'in competition' as I didn't rank high enough on the list of successful applicants to get a place in training.
Second time around I'd mucked around at University for two years and my marks were looking worse than they did at high school. I had however mananged to 'sort my life out' after taking a two year break and was now back at university getting A's and B's (woohoo), unfortunately this time around my aptitude tests for pilot training weren't 'high enough' despite being over the required minimum. The selection board did however think highly of me as a candidate for Officer training and offered me the position of 'Air Warfare Officer' (formerly known as Navigator) pending a final decision in September/October of this year.
Although sad that my dream of being a pilot in the RNZAF was more or less done and dusted, I decided it best that I go for the AWO position and make the best of being an Officer while paying for my own flight training privately. It has now been four months and today I recieved a phone call saying that there would be no decision made on the AWO intake until at least September/October 2010... SHITBALLS.
So far this process has taken 5 years to get to where I'm at currently. The good thing is that after getting back into gear for the initial testing last year I felt I was 'getting dumb' by not actively learning anything, and that discovery channel wasn't going to turn me into a pilot - I am now 'back on track' to getting a degree as well as knocking out the PPL (private pilots licence) and CPL (commercial) theory components at the same time.
Since I sat the initial tests in September last year I have sat in limbo in terms of any real certainty as to where my life was going to lead. I was almost a dead certainty for AWO so took some comfort in that, and had started to shape things around the likeliness of joining the Air Force in January next year. I now have another year to wait if I go through with their process.
It's so frustrating going from 'certainty' to not knowing where to head in life. Looks like I'm going to have to think this one over for a few weeks and make up my mind as to what I should do!
What would you do?
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Originally Posted by R6_kid
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