3Gs would be better spent on an RJ course...there is one I know of that is only about 3K. At least you're not paying for the "privilege" to make money for someone else's business--and instead you'd be getting some sim time. In addition, an RJ course would get anyone a lot closer to a job than 50 hrs of VFR multi (yeah, that's right...they pretty much don't do surveys unless they can see the oil rigs/drills...thus it's prob mostly VFR).