Originally Posted by
RedGuy
Discouraged by the 1,500hr rule? boy it must be really rough to have to get ALL those hours to get to your first airline job.
How times have changed.
The cost of attending some of these aviation colleges I can understand being a deterrent, but you don't have to spend $200k and go to Embry Riddle to be a pilot either.
Anyways as far as makeup I don't know other than my class which was mostly under 30.
It's not about having to build 1500, as much as the time comes slow and most people are looking at 2-3 years to build the hours, all while making crappy wages, then another year of first year airline pay. There's a lot of people that just can't afford to only make $25k for 3 or 4 years...
The school I instructed at was $250,000 for 4 years plus flight ratings. Rediculous. But even going the FBO route can easily run $50,000 these days, add another $70,000 for a degree from a state school (yes tuition is getting that out of control), and a lot of people just can't afford it.