Talked to a lawyer who is a friend of my parents and the training contracts you sign are not enforceable. It is a scare tatic to keep you there, if you are required for legal reasons (FAA required) to go through company specific training for a job then they can not legally make you pay for that training. Especially if you are on probationary terms (normally that first year), if they don't need a reason to fire you then you don't need a reason to quit. Also unless they are going after every single pilot who quit before you, then the case will get thrown out the minute it gets put on a judges desk. One last thing no collection agency would ever touch that kind of collection, way to much legal trouble enforceing them. Now to the moral aspect, be prepared to answer about your reasoning for quiting, years down the road at a interview, dont think that major HR rep doesn't know about colgans training contract. So be careful don't burn them bridges.