Originally Posted by
Bellanca
So you are just advocating that CFI's making $20k per year, that are likely still paying off student loans, should have to go buy even more flight time to meet ATP mins??
I'm glad it worked out for you, but it certainly isn't an option for me or many of other CFI's I know.
I figured out how to pay for my flight training and was frugal AS HELL growing up. I rented reasonably priced airplanes and flew my *** off since the day I first soloed. I'm not going to apologize for that!
Also, I said IF CFIs rented, because all the CFIs I worked with did at some point (or got access to one of their student's planes for cheap). I did not say MUST rent.
By the way, my parents said they didn't owe me one dime the day after I graduated high school, so yeah, I paid for it on my own.
What else ya got?