Originally Posted by
ryan1234
... what's wrong with just working hard until you complete your ratings... why does everything always have to be instant gratification?
That's how did it, and I owe nothing to flight training. It makes you appreciate having the training to have paid for it up-front. It also makes you a lot more level-minded when it comes to assessing whether or not to take an airline job. It would seem impossible to say "no" to an entry level airline job, when you have $50-100k in flight training debts aimed at getting you there. I always wonder how those pilots who do it make the payments.