A320fan

Wait, you're talking about me? What I said is i have my ppl and closing in on 90 hours of TT. It only took me about 45 to get to the checkride, and that was rushing for me (hence why I failed it the first time). Yes, I can openly admit that I'm not the smartest person or fastest learner in the world, but it's not that bad is it?

USMCFLYR

No A320fan - it is not bad.
From pilotoutlook.com:

Quote:

Average time to get private pilot license in US: 55; Approximate Costs - $6000 - $10000

Looks to me like you did it 10 hours UNDER the national average.
Welcome to aviation.

USMCFLYR

MTCowboy

As one person has stated already, if you go somewhere else you want ALL not most, ALL of your credits to transfer. I know that any university or college that has a 'on-line' program they do accept ALL of your credits. Mainly because you can shop for any place to get your degree on line and do it from anywhere. Not so if you attend their campus.

aviatorpr

don't let an instructor force a checkride on you if you don't feel comfortable and ready for it. checkride failures are getting looked at more heavily thanks to Capt Renslow at Colgan. Everyone learns at a different pace, but once you make it to the airlines and they start fire hosing you, you will need be ready to take it all in quickly. Keep at it A320, you'll be alright

Americansoldier

A320fan, I'm pretty sure I know the "prestigious" 141 school in question, pretty sure I graduated from there as well, but I did elect to not finish my degree in aviation due to the cost of everything after the multiengine course, and bailed to take what seemed to be a pretty good job (nonflying) instead. Since then, the company I worked for went bankrupt, I was turned down for a flight slot in the military, being 9 months too old, and have accepted a job back at my old company now under new ownership. This is all within 1 year of leaving school. And I do have the student loans to pay back which you are dreading, and the payments are near the equivalent of a house payment.

I have been where you are at, and the advice I have to offer is.

1. Do what makes YOU happy. (sounds cliche, I know, but I have turned down what seem to be good job opportunities, just to get back into the industry)

2. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Currently I use my overpriced pilot ratings to fly my own plane (when I can afford it) and have found that what I really love is flying, whether or not I ever get paid to do it.

3. Get that degree in SOMETHING.

If you want some inside opinions or advice. Feel free to PM me and I will shoot you my phone number.

A320fan

Thank you Soldier, will do if I have any other thoughts about it.

And aviatorpr, in response to what you said, it's not the instructors that force check rides on me, but it's the school's deadlines and lack of time that's forcing them on me. True, the only FAA check ride I failed yet is the PPL, but we (along with other 141 schools) have periodic stage checks, which are suppository designed to be to a "higher standard" than FAA rides. Out of the last ten stage checks that I have taken, I have failed four of them simply because I was either at or beyond the deadlines to finish training, rushed, didn't take my time, and the rest is history. Along with FAA rides, how hard of a blow will failed 141 stage checks give us?

Keep in mind, if I do decide to stay 141, I'm taking my time and have already started studying for my first instrument stage check (in mid-October if all goes to plan), basically doing all I can to not fail any more of these. But I still have three years of this left, and still have intense deadlines to work with.