About the Course Becoming a pilot is one of the most exciting and rewarding of career choices. This specialist degree provides an ideal starting point for you to train to become a professional pilot after graduation. It incorporates fundamental practice and theory, but also presents the opportunity to obtain a Private Pilot’s Licence (PPL) and to undertake training in a flight simulator.

Graduates can enter almost any professional aerospace career, for example as an aeronautical engineer, commercial or military pilot, air traffic controller, aeronautical researcher. You will also have a major advantage if you are going on to pursue a course of professional flying training. Graduates have gone on to work for: The RAF Ministry of Defence GE Energy Qinetiq Group Caterpillar.