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.