Originally Posted by
andersg
Thanks for the reply. My main requirement is close to home since I'll need to keep a job and my wife has a great job now. And unfortunately this is the only school in the twin cities that offers a degree with flight school. So the ability to finance it period regardless of debt afterwards is nice. All other flight schools in the twin cities are cash up front since there is no degree aspect. So I'm torn. I absolutely appreciate your insight, but this seems like the only option without moving out of state.
Still worth the debt? Always the possibility of finishing a 4 yr degree online while in the regionals. Can defer student loans if I'm doing online school for another two years lol.
I got my PPL through Thunderbird Avaition at KMIC which is the FBO and flight school that is associated with Academy college. They had some really good instructors there that knew their stuff. When I finshed my license they tried talking me into going to academy college but I chose a different route. They told me I’d expect about 100k of debt after getting everything up to your CFII and that would roughly take a year a half. After that they would give you a job to teach the new students. If you do the bachelors program you’d only need 1000 hours for ATP because it’s a 141 school. I had already graduated college so doing part 61 training was a better option for myself.