Originally Posted by
sweetholyjesus
Four years paying college tuition making no money, then 2 years flight instructing to get 1500 hours making no money and paying back loans, then spend your first year at a regional making poverty wages. Up to 7 straight years of crap with no guaranteed career progression and you don't see how someone can be discouraged to join this industry
Med School looking better and better by the day....
Originally Posted by
Taylor814ce
Private alone runs average of $20K in my neck of woods.
$8/gal 100LL.
wow, where is your flight school? ORD? It's $3.84 at my local airport, which is far from podunk and I've gassed up for as low as $3.33 in the last month.
Originally Posted by
50SeatsofGrey
I honestly cannot think of an excuse for not having one.
Astronomical cost, like you mentioned, is a fantastic excuse for not having one.