Originally Posted by
gloopy
If those numbers are anywhere remotely close to being true, its a very good thing you can't get financing for it.
That said, even if you're playing with daddy's money its a pathetic "investment" to overpay that much for a degree and some ratings. You can get just as good a degree somewhere else and train at FBO's for dramatically less money. Oh but you might not get to solo in an all glass G1000 plane LOL!
Seeing this cost transition even for private pilots. I still do some GA instructing and all my clients are now high net worth individuals that bought a brand new plane outright. When I got my CFI in 1991 all my students were middle class (police officers, school teacher, fireman, chef, a zoo keeper, line worker at Ford). It really is transitioning to the rich.