Yeah so I know I'm going to get **** for saying this but its just another option... I was in your situation about 4 months ago. I was a DCA student going into multi and I said to myself that I really dont want to be a flight instructor. I'm tired of training flights and I really dont want to teach.. I just didn't think it was for me. So I looked around. I went to Gulfstream airlines academy and it ended up being a great thing for me. No I'm not flying a jet and yeah I'm getting paid like a bag boy at the supermarket but its fun. I'm flying real routes with real people just like you will be in another year or so if you stay at DCA.. I'm not saying that DCA is a bad place at all. I think that they have a good system that works but I think its the long way around. Most people are going to tell you that GIA it a bad school and its a horrible company and what not but hey its like that anywhere. There are always going to be problems wherever you go. So many people hate mesa and freedom but atleast your flying a jet. I feel the same way about Gulfstream that it may not be the greatest but I know that I'm more happy flying the 1900 then I would be sitting in a cessna flying around Lake Apoka. Thats my take on it and thats my story...