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08-02-2016, 10:48 AM
#8911
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Joined APC: Jul 2013
Posts: 10,064
Originally Posted by payingdues
lol you must be right if you have no facts or figures to back that up. What is adequate instruction? Paying 140k at a 141 school? To get the same job at the same airlines and continue to operate under the same level of safety. What a dumb statement. Get your ratings and pay as little as possible for it. The PTS is the same for everyone.
I know of many places that give superior instruction for an equal cost where you will actually learn how to become a pilot and not just enough to pass a checkride.
08-02-2016, 10:59 AM
#8912
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Posts: 58
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Filler.
Filler.
Originally Posted by MKUltra
I wouldn't believe those numbers..
If I had a kid this is what I would do.. Get a Cessna 150 for around 15 grand. Buy the plane with a fresh annual. Find a good independent instructor that will teach accelerated ratings. Call your local designated examiners and ask for recommendations on a good instructor. You want someone who is not going to go to the airlines tomorrow.
Fly every single day for the next six months.. Earn your private, intrument and get all your cross country commercial requirements done in your little 30 dollar per hour aircraft. Knock off the rest of the commercial in cheap retract.
Get your CFI's knocked out.. Sell your little Cessna within the annual time for close to what you paid for it..
250 hours on your little bird at about 30 dollars an hour, $7500.
60 hours of instruction at 40 per hour, 2400. Total cost.. About 12,000 after retract rental. At the most 2k extra for something breaking on the Cessna.. Be sure the seas a has a vor with glideslope and it running.
Just my two cents
If I had a kid this is what I would do.. Get a Cessna 150 for around 15 grand. Buy the plane with a fresh annual. Find a good independent instructor that will teach accelerated ratings. Call your local designated examiners and ask for recommendations on a good instructor. You want someone who is not going to go to the airlines tomorrow.
Fly every single day for the next six months.. Earn your private, intrument and get all your cross country commercial requirements done in your little 30 dollar per hour aircraft. Knock off the rest of the commercial in cheap retract.
Get your CFI's knocked out.. Sell your little Cessna within the annual time for close to what you paid for it..
250 hours on your little bird at about 30 dollars an hour, $7500.
60 hours of instruction at 40 per hour, 2400. Total cost.. About 12,000 after retract rental. At the most 2k extra for something breaking on the Cessna.. Be sure the seas a has a vor with glideslope and it running.
Just my two cents
08-02-2016, 11:01 AM
#8913
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Joined APC: Sep 2014
Posts: 521
Originally Posted by MKUltra
I wouldn't believe those numbers..
If I had a kid this is what I would do.. Get a Cessna 150 for around 15 grand. Buy the plane with a fresh annual. Find a good independent instructor that will teach accelerated ratings. Call your local designated examiners and ask for recommendations on a good instructor. You want someone who is not going to go to the airlines tomorrow.
Fly every single day for the next six months.. Earn your private, intrument and get all your cross country commercial requirements done in your little 30 dollar per hour aircraft. Knock off the rest of the commercial in cheap retract.
Get your CFI's knocked out.. Sell your little Cessna within the annual time for close to what you paid for it..
250 hours on your little bird at about 30 dollars an hour, $7500.
60 hours of instruction at 40 per hour, 2400. Total cost.. About 12,000 after retract rental. At the most 2k extra for something breaking on the Cessna.. Be sure the seas a has a vor with glideslope and it running.
Just my two cents
If I had a kid this is what I would do.. Get a Cessna 150 for around 15 grand. Buy the plane with a fresh annual. Find a good independent instructor that will teach accelerated ratings. Call your local designated examiners and ask for recommendations on a good instructor. You want someone who is not going to go to the airlines tomorrow.
Fly every single day for the next six months.. Earn your private, intrument and get all your cross country commercial requirements done in your little 30 dollar per hour aircraft. Knock off the rest of the commercial in cheap retract.
Get your CFI's knocked out.. Sell your little Cessna within the annual time for close to what you paid for it..
250 hours on your little bird at about 30 dollars an hour, $7500.
60 hours of instruction at 40 per hour, 2400. Total cost.. About 12,000 after retract rental. At the most 2k extra for something breaking on the Cessna.. Be sure the seas a has a vor with glideslope and it running.
Just my two cents
I had it about a year, flew ~400 hours on it, and sold it for exactly what I paid for it. I did have to pay a tie down fee, plus other small maintenance that came up.
In the end, I did save some money, but I was lucky. I sold it with the same brakes and same tires that I bought it with, and took very good care of it, but there are all sorts of unexpected costs. The hobbs meter stopped working, as did the tach. And, the power pack for the strobes stopped working. Those, plus the oil changes, cost me money.
In the end, it was a gamble. It could have cost me thousands of dollars more if something had gone wrong. I was lucky, and I figure it saved me about $15,000.
I would be happy to tell you more about it, since I did it.
08-02-2016, 11:22 AM
#8914
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Filler
Filler
Originally Posted by AboveAndBeyond
This is close to what I did, and it worked out. Instead of buying it immediately, I got my private in a rented 172, then bought a Piper Arrow. It burned 6.5 gal/hr if you pulled it back in cruise, plus I could used it for my instrument, commercial, and CFI.
I had it about a year, flew ~400 hours on it, and sold it for exactly what I paid for it. I did have to pay a tie down fee, plus other small maintenance that came up.
In the end, I did save some money, but I was lucky. I sold it with the same brakes and same tires that I bought it with, and took very good care of it, but there are all sorts of unexpected costs. The hobbs meter stopped working, as did the tach. And, the power pack for the strobes stopped working. Those, plus the oil changes, cost me money.
In the end, it was a gamble. It could have cost me thousands of dollars more if something had gone wrong. I was lucky, and I figure it saved me about $15,000.
I would be happy to tell you more about it, since I did it.
I had it about a year, flew ~400 hours on it, and sold it for exactly what I paid for it. I did have to pay a tie down fee, plus other small maintenance that came up.
In the end, I did save some money, but I was lucky. I sold it with the same brakes and same tires that I bought it with, and took very good care of it, but there are all sorts of unexpected costs. The hobbs meter stopped working, as did the tach. And, the power pack for the strobes stopped working. Those, plus the oil changes, cost me money.
In the end, it was a gamble. It could have cost me thousands of dollars more if something had gone wrong. I was lucky, and I figure it saved me about $15,000.
I would be happy to tell you more about it, since I did it.
08-02-2016, 04:07 PM
#8915
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Joined APC: Jan 2014
Position: CA
Posts: 309
Will they still be hiring and upgrading into the dash or will all new classes be the 145? I'm considering making the move but I want whatever plane I can upgrade into the quickest (I have over 1000 121) and would base me in MDT. Really don't want to make a lateral to be a 145 FO in PHL.
08-02-2016, 04:16 PM
#8916
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Joined APC: Jan 2014
Position: EMB-145 CA
Posts: 983
Originally Posted by mm1989
Will they still be hiring and upgrading into the dash or will all new classes be the 145? I'm considering making the move but I want whatever plane I can upgrade into the quickest (I have over 1000 121) and would base me in MDT. Really don't want to make a lateral to be a 145 FO in PHL.
08-02-2016, 05:03 PM
#8917
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Joined APC: Mar 2016
Position: Sitting and waiting
Posts: 443
Originally Posted by Lvlng4Spd
I believe you could finish FO training in the dash and then be a MDT-based CA, starting training right after FO SOE on the dash.
That's exactly what I'll be doing. Hopefully start SOE next week.
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08-02-2016, 05:11 PM
#8918
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Joined APC: Jan 2014
Position: CA
Posts: 309
Originally Posted by Lvlng4Spd
I believe you could finish FO training in the dash and then be a MDT-based CA, starting training right after FO SOE on the dash.
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