Kinda scary thinking a 500 hour pilot is flying a CRJ around, let alone a 727!!!!
That's a whole heck of a lot more aluminum to putz around in than a 172.

 

Connectionpilot.. 30K is a lot and I spent 80K at DCA because I lived in a nice apartment in Lake Mary instead of living at the landing, takeing about 30K out of my loan on living expenses. But I still have 6 months after GIA to start paying. And I'm getting $8 dollars per flight hour for the first 250 so it helps a little. Your advantage to going to GIA is that you will get the experence of flying in a 121 operation and you get the experence of flying with all the majors at all the big airports not to mention the international experence.. Not that the Bahamas is that much of an international destination. Your flying bigger and faster aircraft and most of all your dealing with people. But to make that step you have to make sure that its what you want to do. Its too much money to change you mind halfway through. The training is fast and somewhat difficult. I know when I was sitting where you are right now all I wanted to do were Cross countrys and shoot approaches. I was tired of stalls and slow flight and all of that. And I feel that GIA allowed me to get out of the training life and start actually doing what I was being trained to do. Your not going to be put on a blacklist and not be hated for it if you go there. Its just an airline that has a program that gets you what you need to go to a regional. If this was a PFT/PFJ program then everyone from my class would be flying right now but two out of the six of us are not. One cant pass the sim and the other couldn't pass his checkride and neither of them has even been in the actual airplane. So where does the PFT/PFJ come in?? Cause as far as I can see is that I spent 30K to get trained to fly a 1900 instead of spend 30K on CFI, CFII, and MEI. I have buddies finishing their 250 and going to Eagle and Expressjet just like you would be if you were a CFI with 1000 hrs and 100 multi. Just do what you feel is right. There is nothing wrong with being a CFI or going to Jet U or GIA or getting a job towing a banner at the beach. However you get your hours is how you get your hours. And call me a scab if you want but I'm enjoying what I'm doing and my quality of life is outstanding.

 

You make $8.00 per hour and your quality of life is OUTSTANDING? I think that is the quote of the year.

 

Well no I didn't mean the $8 because that isn't great. But its only for three months. But my quality of life is good because I'm living back at home where I want to be and I'm getting really good hours. Where I'm living is the most important thing to me.

 

I understand being at home is a big plus. I just hope that GIA dosen't hurt your career progression. I'm in no way throwing stones, I just hear a lot of negative things when the "PFT" subject comes up. I personally don't agree with "PFT", but to each is his own.

 

I understand what your saying.. And I thank you for not throwing stones at me. I have heard a lot of negative things but I've also heard positive things and there are guys from GIA that are moving up in the industry. But I guess I wont know for sure for myself until I get to that point.

 

Where are you now? What did Jet U do for you?

 

GIA, RAA, PFT, its not the airline that will black ball you its the pilots. We all get a little bitter when daddy picks up the bill or some salesman talks one of our future brothers into borrowing more money only to see them get stuck with a $600 payment and a $1200 income and having to get out of the business just to repay the loans. Its disheartening.

I was in an X-jet interview with a guy who announced he was a gulf streamer, aside from not having a clue he did not get the job. He was a moron but I heard one of the other guys in the interview had a connection with one of the interviewers. When it was his turn to interview he told his connection about this guy being a gulf streamer and the fact that he seemed idiot. Needless to say he got the walk.

I meet guys all the time with RAA type ratings that can't figure out which way is up and can not even come close to having someone talk to them about a job at their airline.

Get your Cfi make $15-$25 bucks an hour for a year, learn more than you ever will in a class room and become a professional pilot! That’s my advise.

Flame on~!

 

I'm at UPS.

 

Tuition for embry riddle is 25k per year plus room and board which is an additional 7k. That's 32k per year times 4 and add in 50k for flight training so you're looking at least 170k for a four year degree plus flight training costs. That's not even including expenses. Your 80k with embry riddle and flight training was with the extended campus .