Old 01-13-2009, 09:10 AM
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Default Local FLight School

I asked my local flight school recently for an estimate of how much it cost to go from zero to CFI. They gave me a number of 80K. In the 1990s I remember that there were flight schools that would sell a package that took pilots all the way to 1500 hours and an ATP. These days I bet that it would be a price that would make Bill Gates flinch.

If you don't get a loan then how can you learn to fly? However if you do get a loan then how can you afford to work as a pilot later? These are indeed difficult questions. In my case I worked several jobs and bought flight time as I could.

This is the first of many hurdles pilots face.

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