How much did you spend of flight training?

[Fedora]

Bolivar Aviations! Wow does that bring back memories! Spent exactly 1000 dollars there to get my ATP with a guy that had 1550 hours as an instructor when I got out of the Navy in 1984. Ground fog rolled in and he asked me to do the ITO at an outlying field as I had 4500 hours.
I also spent 10K at Flight Safety to get my DC 9 Type when I got on at ValuJet. I think that's all I spent. Got my seaplane rating on the company dime at Lake in Laconia. The Rivards are fine folks.
Yip, you are da man! An aviator, not a pilot!
Hope you are well.

 

[time builder]

Man, if this thread was intended to show newcomers what to expect, I think it failed, we got a bunch of people posting (myself included) who got their time in before gas prices spiked.

Then again, I can understand, if I blew 4 times as much money as everyone else posting, I would feel uneasy putting my figures up.

 

[time builder]

Now all of have seen pilots of all ages to whom the autopilot is only source of flying salvation. BTW how about the age of the airplanes in my profile. I am flying a 1945 C-47 to KPTK tommrow, no autopilot, no FMS, no FD, no auto engine temp control, no automatic gear down and uplock, lets see what does the C-47 do automatically, oh! yes it regulates the Hyd pressure between 750-900 PSI.

The BE99 I flew today was built nearly 40 years later and doesn't have any of that stuff (autopilot included). I'm just happy to have a functioning monochromatic radar.

 

[TheBaron]

Went to Spartan from 1993-95. Student loans of $28k which are about half paid off and another 13k out of the GI bill. Paid for my night classes to get a BS out of my own pocket to the tune of 8-10K. Was it worth it...ask me after I retire.

 

[staylow]

KSU 1997-1999, spent $33k total, for PVT to CFII and a BS degree and a AS degree. Of the $33K, $20K was paid by may G.I. Bill.

 

[staylow]

KSU 1997-1999, $33K, $20K paid by G.I. Bill, plus a BS and AS degree.

 

[flyguy81]

34k in loans for private thru mei plus BS/MS degrees. All finished in 4 years.

 

[Flying Ninja]

A little over $101k at the soon to be out of business CAPT program. Can't say it was the smartest decision I've ever made considering it was a financial and career death trap. But I sure did get a useless DC-9 type rating out of it!

 

[siucavflight]

101,000????????? Wow, just wow.

 

[Way2Broke]

Man, if this thread was intended to show newcomers what to expect, I think it failed, we got a bunch of people posting (myself included) who got their time in before gas prices spiked.

Then again, I can understand, if I blew 4 times as much money as everyone else posting, I would feel uneasy putting my figures up.

Thats true. Its not a accurate sampling because anyone that has completed flight training recently can not afford the 10 bucks to sign up.

 

[landlover]

A little over $101k at the soon to be out of business CAPT program. Can't say it was the smartest decision I've ever made considering it was a financial and career death trap. But I sure did get a useless DC-9 type rating out of it!

whats up my ninja? in response to your signature, you should be able to get a job at a regional. i know it wont help much with the student loan but its a job. i'd recommend going and flying cargo. quite a few operators still run cargo in the dc-9. pay is better flying boxes then most regionals too. usajet, ameristar to name a few

 

[Flying Ninja]

whats up my ninja? in response to your signature, you should be able to get a job at a regional. i know it wont help much with the student loan but its a job. i'd recommend going and flying cargo. quite a few operators still run cargo in the dc-9. pay is better flying boxes then most regionals too. usajet, ameristar to name a few

Thanks for the looking out! It's been so long since that DC-9, I really couldn't tell you how to start the engines on that bad boy anymore. Got my resume out to some regionals with no callbacks. I'm petty sure CAPT has me blacklisted out there. Got some resumes out there with no call backs in this "pilot shortage" market. I don't expect to get picked up but since e-mail is cheap, it doesn't hurt to throw it out there. Each no reply is just another bar story over a few good beers these days.

 

[WestHouston]

Finishing CFI this week. I paid about $5,000 for my PPL in Seattle in a shat C150. Hazelwood Act paid for my instruement, commercial and CFI and an associates degree at San Jacinto College with DCA.

My non-veteran classmates are droppin about 50-70 large for the Denny's Aviation Sampler these days. But hey, they do get the "guaranteed interview" from a company where "being owned by Delta is everyhthing"... lol.

 

[Turtlesfly]

DCA also recommends borrowing against your 401(k).

That's criminal - there's NOBODY on planet earth who has any financial sense that would recommend that.

 

[rbav8r]

Got my private in 1987 - $7hr for instructor. $25 hr for C-152. I spent around $9,000 to $10,000 to get to a flight instructor job.

 

[Vne]

Rent-a-Plane KOPF 1968 :$11 hr wet C150 $16 hr dual. Skinny CFI's !
PVT-COMM- MULTI- CFI/AI/MEI total less income as cfi $4500....ah the good old days
unemployed pilot 1970 -1976 could not even buy a job. At least a "legal one"

 

[Way2Broke]

Thanks for the looking out! It's been so long since that DC-9, I really couldn't tell you how to start the engines on that bad boy anymore. Got my resume out to some regionals with no callbacks. I'm petty sure CAPT has me blacklisted out there. Got some resumes out there with no call backs in this "pilot shortage" market. I don't expect to get picked up but since e-mail is cheap, it doesn't hurt to throw it out there. Each no reply is just another bar story over a few good beers these days.

Seriously, send your stuff to USA Jet or message Pilot YIP on here. I bet they would give you a fair shake. You might be amazed how that DC-9 would come back to you once you were put through 121 DC 9 training.

 

[Max Q]

2002-2004: $45,000

Changed schools several times since two out of three of them were owned and operated by fraudulent jackholes, both in South Florida. Wasted a lot of money switching schools and planes but made up for it during my ME Comm/Inst. and MEI/CFII, where I completed the whole course and checkrides for $1600.

-Brett

 

[Raskal]

2002-Private through CFI $25k, got a job at same place instructing December of that year.

Sheesh, I used to think I spent too much, reading this I feel a little better (not much though)

 

[texman]

All my friends went to Riddle. I couldn't afford it. I Went to a small flight school in Texas and spent less than 25k in 2000. Got all my ratings through CFI.