I'm at Auburn now majoring in pro flight and I am in the same boat you are in. I've exhausted all of my student loan options and even tried taking out a personal loan at a bank. I will tell you that it costs about $2,000 per month. Most of the jobs around here are fast food and pay minimum wage. I had to drop out of my flight training last week until I can reapply for financial aid in January. From what I am finding out, if you're not extremely poor to where you can get gov. assistance or if you're not extremely rich to where you can pay $60,000 out of pocket, then you're kind of screwed. You either work full-time and save every penny or you work part time and fly once a month.

The way it works here is if you decide to just do flight training and not go to school here, you put $3,000 into an account and you have to have a min of $750 to fly. If you can't get the full amount you are entitled to for student loans plus a pell grant, you will be in the same boat with me very frustrated and realizing you have to put it off another year. Take some advice and get your degree and get your flight time somewhere else. I'm going to finish mine at KBHM flight center. It's about $17,000 cheaper and it takes around 10 months instead of 3 years to go from zero time to commercial. I don't have pm's yet and neither do you so if you want some more info on the program then shoot me an e-mail at [email protected]