FAA looks at revising tougher pilot training
07-29-2014 | 10:28 AM
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If those numbers are anywhere remotely close to being true, its a very good thing you can't get financing for it.
That said, even if you're playing with daddy's money its a pathetic "investment" to overpay that much for a degree and some ratings. You can get just as good a degree somewhere else and train at FBO's for dramatically less money. Oh but you might not get to solo in an all glass G1000 plane LOL!
That said, even if you're playing with daddy's money its a pathetic "investment" to overpay that much for a degree and some ratings. You can get just as good a degree somewhere else and train at FBO's for dramatically less money. Oh but you might not get to solo in an all glass G1000 plane LOL!
07-29-2014 | 10:34 AM
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Mike Rowe whole heartedly agrees with your point of view.
07-29-2014 | 10:36 AM
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Seeing this cost transition even for private pilots. I still do some GA instructing and all my clients are now high net worth individuals that bought a brand new plane outright. When I got my CFI in 1991 all my students were middle class (police officers, school teacher, fireman, chef, a zoo keeper, line worker at Ford). It really is transitioning to the rich.
07-29-2014 | 10:52 AM
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It doesn't have to be that way. I spent around $60-70k for my B.S. Flight Operations, CFII-MEI. Thanks to scholarships, part-time jobs in school, etc., I had $25k in student loans upon graduation. Down to $20k now 15 months after graduation. It's not impossible to get a quality aviation degree for less than $100k.
Yes, I know most of my peers in the IT degrees are debt-free and rocking it right now. But they fly a desk.
Yes, I know most of my peers in the IT degrees are debt-free and rocking it right now. But they fly a desk.
07-29-2014 | 11:58 AM
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My youngest brother had 12 yrs of private school (I wasn't that "lucky" and only had the "good sisters" a couple of years). The kid missed one question on the SAT. He's in the 99% percentile. Could have gotten a full ride scholarship.
What's he doing these days? He looks like the third member of ZZ Top and never went to college. Drives an 18 wheeler a couple days a week in Detroit. Probably the only trucker that can discuss ancient philosophy and quantum physics in the same breath but he's happy as a clam. Meanwhile, I'm giving myself ulcers trying to commute to LGA on first year regional pay. But hey, I've got a degree and the student loans to prove it
What's he doing these days? He looks like the third member of ZZ Top and never went to college. Drives an 18 wheeler a couple days a week in Detroit. Probably the only trucker that can discuss ancient philosophy and quantum physics in the same breath but he's happy as a clam. Meanwhile, I'm giving myself ulcers trying to commute to LGA on first year regional pay. But hey, I've got a degree and the student loans to prove it
07-29-2014 | 02:06 PM
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Same here. I got a BS in Mechanical Engineering from a local state school; and was flight training during summer breaks at a part 61 school and got all of my ratings up to CFI/CFII.
07-29-2014 | 02:23 PM
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Gloopy, the numbers are true. Embry Riddle is $43,000 per year, plus $25,000, and $35,000 per year for the first 2 years of flight, with $15,000 for the last year. So plan on a minimum of $247,000 to go there. It's usually more. You would have to be completely insane to go there.
BTW, those are this year's fees, they go up every year.
BTW, those are this year's fees, they go up every year.
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07-29-2014 | 02:31 PM
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Why would anyone pay that much money for a job that pays on avg less then 100k? This career is a joke. Spend your life in some garbage hotel for a subpar wage. Just think, a 1/4 million dollar education gets you a 25k job. Oustside of aviation if you say Embry Riddle they would think you went to a ITT type school.
07-29-2014 | 04:34 PM
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Why would anyone pay that much money for a job that pays on avg less then 100k? This career is a joke. Spend your life in some garbage hotel for a subpar wage. Just think, a 1/4 million dollar education gets you a 25k job. Oustside of aviation if you say Embry Riddle they would think you went to a ITT type school.
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