I'm 20y/o and just finishing up my PPL with a little over 200 hours (I have access to a family plane). I'm looking to finish the rest of my ratings and going for a flight instructor job. I talked to a local 141 flight school who say they can get me from the instrument to the MEI for 28k and 3 months of non-paid instructing. My bachelors has been paid for and my PPL cost about 4k, so all in all this is costing me about 32k give or take. This seems like a pretty good deal considering ATP is offering the same thing (minus the 3 months of no pay) for 50k and 65k for phoenix east.

How much did you guys spend on your training? Is there a better way to do it? I know I could finish the instrument, commercial and cfi privately for less, but it would all be non structured and take me a lot longer to complete. Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.


On a side note. I don't have 28k in my back pocket and this flight school does not offer direct financing. Does anyone know if it is possible to get loans without a cosigner for this sort of operation? And no, it's not one of those pay-up-front-and-skip-town kind of schools.