Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
All ATP's expensive? I think I paid less than $2,000 for an initial commercial / multi / instrument /Commercial & ATP written.
Yeah, if you do the entire career training it IS expensive. But if you fly independently and just use them to sharp shoot the rating, it is cheap, fast and effective.
So true!!!
When anyone asks for my advice the subject I tell them the same thing a UAL pilot told me years ago. Find the cheapest, slowest airplane around. You're trying to build time. Whether it's a new Piper with GPS, glass, and autopilot or a 1965 C-150 you're still logging single engine piston time.
I'm not sure what flight training costs are these days but no way should anyone be paying anything close to 150K for training.