Originally Posted by
FlyingKat
Its true. Even the cheapest 4 year aviation degrees are around $150K. The gold plated programs at Riddle and UND can run you as high as $250K. That's why all these numbers are down. You can't get student loans to cover it, plus if you look at an education as a pure investment, the return on other degrees is much higher than aviation. Not very many people are going to borrow this kind of money just to make $20 or $25K right out of school....
Which is why only the dumb ones are taking up this "profession." Anyone with descent math skills can see that they should take another path and then one of us will be flying them during the week, and they'll fly their Cirrus on the weekends