Originally Posted by
captjns
One option is to purchase an aircraft. An aircraft with a bit more horse power than a C-152 would be recommended. Enter into a lease arrangement with a flight school.
Put your talents as an A&P, to conduct a thorough pre-purchase inspection.
An arrangement such as barter and financial or a combination of both can be agreed upon. Maintenance for a flight instrucor.
At the end of the day, you can sell the aircraft to move up to a high performance single or multi-engine.
All sounds nice, not gonna work.
A flightschool is not going to need anything you can buy for less then $100k.
They really don’t need anybody dragging in a hunk of junk.
The whole purchasing a plane is cheaper - a fallacy.
You need different aircraft for different stages of your training.
Apply yourself in training.
Show the school you’ll make a good CFI when you’re done.
Keep your big airplane job for motivation.