Complex sentence: At 18 he attended the Limerick Institute of Technology to study Electronic Engineering but he dropped out of the college within a year to self fund his way through flight school; he got his private pilot's license at the age of 19.
Split into simpler sentences: At 18 he attended the Limerick Institute of Technology to study Electronic Engineering. He dropped out of the college within a year to fund his way through flight school; he got his private pilot's license at the age of 19.