Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
Perhaps, but that has to do with quality of hours, not quantity of hours.
Well, so does UPT. But this is the cost for aircraft time ALONE:
370k for T-6, 469k for T-1, 1.2M for T-38 per the latest RAND study. Not to mention it is a full time job for a year. And ~15% of each graduating class is sent on to instructor school to be instructors for the next three years classes.
No way in hell is the LIFT academy anything near the equivalent.