Hello Everyone,

I'm new here...I'm about to graduate this May with a BA in something completely unrelated to Aviation, but I decided a while ago that I want to be a pilot. I know that having a degree is necessary to get hired by one of the larger airlines, so I have that out of the way, but will be graduating with a little more than 50k in student debt.

I'm hoping to start my flight training this summer, but the number of flight programs is overwhelming. I know that the cheapest option would be to do it at a local FBO, but I currently don't have the cash to pay for this out of pocket.

Ideally, I'm looking for advice from someone about good places to get all of my ratings completed where financing is available. Or, if there are good financing options to complete these ratings at an FBO. Any personal experience would be awesome.

Additionally, the terms of my student loan are such that ideally, to defer my student loan payments, I should be a "part-time" student. So if anyone has experience with using flight school to defer loan payments, I'd love to hear about it.

*Edit* The plan other than flight school is to go to Grad School or Law school and I have a finacee who is in Med School right now. So while the debt may be large for the time being, we're not worried about getting it all paid off. Also, I'd rather do this (because it is my dream) than spend 200k+ on law school.

Thanks!