How much did you spend of flight training?

[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.

 

[airtime4]

02-03 Falcon Aviation Academy Commercial, Instrument, Multi, CFI, CFII, MEI, $24k, CFI Job with health insurance, 135 pic checkout at no cost.

 

[trainer8]

Got my CFI in 1973, GI Bill paid 90%, cost me about $125, I rented a C-150 for $5.00/hr dual. Paid $275 for my ATP in a Grumman Tiger in 1978. That is all the flight training I have paid for.

Grumman Tiger? You got a SEL ATP? Or did you mean Grumman Cougar?

T8

 

[pilotyip]

SEL = one motor

Grumman Tiger? You got a SEL ATP? Or did you mean Grumman Cougar?

T8

Tiger was the plane

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Few thou..... most of my checkrides were with the feds.... no exam fee!!

p.s. if you haven't flown round motors... then you haven't really flown yet!!

 

[WAZUP]

I went to "RIDDLE" cost 100k after that I spent another 70k for right seat time. "At Riddle" we get the best training and "at Riddle" yada yada yada......
J/K I did my training at the local FBO cost 45k instructed there and if I ever have to hear the phrase "well at Riddle....." again I think I'm going to puke. There is always one in ground school

 

[Almerick07]

04-06 zero time to MEI around 29-30k for everything. Made about 10k of that back instructing...all at a state university. Not bad considering some of these stories.

 

[trainer8]

Few thou..... most of my checkrides were with the feds.... no exam fee!!

p.s. if you haven't flown round motors... then you haven't really flown yet!!

Your an old fart.

Remember the days of truging down to the FSDO---no, back then it was called the "GADO"... to do your writtens? I did all my tickets with the Feds or a DE. Private thru CFI, even a SES and A&P all under 15K.

P.S. Got some C-45 and DHC-1 experience. See if the "youngins'" can fugure out what they are without googling them.

T8

 

[pilotyip]

C-45 = Snb-6a

 

[trainer8]

C-45 = Snb-6a

I said "youngins"



T8

 

[Propsync]

93-97 Private university 300 hours/4 year degree/ double major- 7k in loans. Paid off in a year. Would not do it again (nor be able to) with current prices.