[quote=Flying Ninja;546921]
Welle036, after I got out of the program, I had $2000 to my name and $101,000 in debt. The math just didn't work out. Regional airlines pay crap. Had they made good with the 10-12 month timeline, I would have been struggling, but at least I would have had a chance with a regional pay scale. I even looked to local parachute jump and banner towing operations. They all wanted turboprop time and the banner towing wanted taildragger time, which, the CAPT program does not provide. And they also didn't do CFI for any of us back then. Good times...
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Unless you already have another skill aviation would probably still be your greatest future earning potential. That debt is so huge I don't think anything you could do would make the math work out. I don't know what your doing now, but I would still go for it. Eventually you will probably make good money in aviation and be able to pay that thing down. Learning another skill would take more debt and training time and by the time you finish all that, who knows what you would be making as a pilot.
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