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Old 03-03-2010, 03:46 PM
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OdeToMemory
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Default I'm fine with $45,000 of debt, but...

...how am I going to pay it off after college!?

I'm looking into the Professional Pilot concentration at Middle Tennessee State University. Looking at the costs, I'm looking at the neighborhood of $45,000. That's a lot of bank. I'm fine with that kind of debt as long as the payments are possible for me to make.

Then I was told that the payments would be in the neighborhood of $600/month. Can I even make that much instructing? Heck, I'm fine with living on ramen noodles, thrift stores and an air mattress in an apartment above a drug den.

So, looking to post-graduation, what is the market like for flight instructors? I'm willing to move anywhere as long as I'm getting my hours and I'm surviving financially.

What do you guys think? I just wanna fly guys!
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