Originally Posted by
Dashdog
I didn't have the patience to read all previous 9 pages, so forgive me if this was covered, but how does one spend 100K-200K for flight training? When I trained in the early 90's, I spent well less than 30K to get all my ratings up through MEII, and that included buying almost all my hours to reach 250 TT- and a 60 hour chunk of multi time.
Does that 100K-200K figure include a four year degree (you know, the one that isn't worth more than one from the local community college)?
I'm just curious where these figures come from.
Flight training costs have exploded in the last couple of years. If you go the FBO route, which I did, these days it's running close to the 60K mark to go through MEI. That is also with essentially no Multi time. It's hard to pay for even a little of that when FBOs are charging ~$250/hr to rent an old seminole.
I also went to a state school to get my degree, which ran me a total of $24K for tuition and fees (excluding books, etc). All said and done, I've spent about 80-85K total, but can easily see if you go to a private school, or flying g1000 airplanes, how it can rack up quickly.