Originally Posted by
diego5614
So, pretty much, even if I had 1500 hours by 21 years old, I would still need to be enrolled in an approved degree in Order to get my RATP? Wow, this whole time I thought that I could get the RATP at 21 as long as I had my 1500 hours regardless if I was enrolled in an approved degree.
You would need to qualify for an RATP under 61.160, so you would need to have actually completed (not just enrolled in) an approved two or four year degree program.
You could also do it as a military pilot, but that's mathematically very hard to accomplish prior to age 23, essentially impossible unless you're an army warrant helo pilot. Even then it would still be hard to get selected, complete training, and acquire 750 hours before age 23.