Originally Posted by
QuestairVenture
IMHO you would be a fool to finance 100K in pilot training. The payment alone will be more than you make a month for the foreseeable future. If you can't find a way to save for it, the military will gladly pay you for your service. Join a flying club and get your ratings for 1/4 of that cost. The guaranteed instructor job cherry they dangle to lure people in is a joke in this market. You will get tons of job offers once you get your CFI and even some like Falcon will pay for your CFI if you will go work for them.
What about going to an aviation college such as Liberty University? They have a good online program from what I’ve heard?
The thing that concerns me is I can go at it at a slow pace and slowly get my certifications paying for it with my job or with military service but isn’t this industry all about seniority so if you can get it all done asap start building seniority to end up making more money faster wouldn’t it be a better trade-off at the end? Yes I will be 100k in debt at the beginning but after about a year of FO at a regional it seems like most are upgrading to captain and being in my 20s with little to no expenses I could potentially pay the off quick.