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Old 10-28-2018 | 12:22 PM
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Skyrider12
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Default Flight Training Budget

Hey everyone, I had a flight training question and wanted to see what you all think.

I'm 25 and have my PPL, and about 10 hours into my instrument rating. I hope to get my instrument and commercial and hopefully CFI and fly professionally in the next couple years.
I'm paying for everything myself and am trying to avoid debt. I have low living expenses but work a blue collar job (construction) and can only allocate 500 a week to training.
Do you guys think it's better to fly a couple hours a week while working, or maybe save 30k and go to an accelerated program and fly for 3 months and get it done that way?

The thing is, I REALLY want to finish up my ratings and fly professionally, and working construction everyday adds to that even more. But, it's hard to find time to study/fly on my days off.

What do you guys think?? Right now I'm leaning towards not flying for a year and saving as much money as I can then going to an accelerated program, but I wanted to get all your opinions...what would you guys do if you had my budget??
Thanks so much for any advice, this forum is awesome.
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